Following Cambodia and Thailand earlier in the year, another short trip was in order to ensure that this year's holiday quota was used for interesting purposes. Instead of going on my own, this time I went with my friend from school, Richard. Flying via Helsinki (to keep the cost down) Finnair delivered us in a safe and timely fashion into Delhi, the only downside was that it was 1am in the morning. We grabbed a taxi to Main Bazaar and the look on Richard's face when we got out the taxi was priceless. The filth and squalor was a bit of [View Full Entry]

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Since being back in England for almost a year it was nigh time to go on holiday again i thought. Sadly just a short trip of two weeks this time! It is however an undoubtedly superior feeling to be back in Asia in contrast to get excited about pensions in Guildford. I arrived in Bangkok and spent three nights there visited a few markets, temples and did a bit of shopping. There food is always consistently good in Thailand so whether i ate on the street or in a nice restaurant, it was always impressive. From Bangkok I then journeyed by [View Full Entry]

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Lots of sea, sun and great food. A quick week with Malin and Jim before heading home. Well worth the journey. Bali is great. [View Full Entry]

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After a long and very cold (air con) overnight bus trip from Bangkok to Khao Lak, I arranged to go on a Liveabord dive trip into the Similan Islands. The boat left in the evening of the morning I arrived so I was exhausted when we started out but soon reovered. I have never done a Liveaboard before, it was a brilliant way to dive and see the Similan's. I went with Siam Dive Adventure, their boat is very new and comfortable, the package included 14 dives over 4 days and 4 nights around the Similan Islands. I won't bore you [View Full Entry]

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After an overnight bus journey from Bangkok to Nong Khai, I crossed the Thai Laos Friendship bridge over the Mekong River and into Laos. A short bus ride and I arrived into Vientiane, the capital city. After sleeping for most of the the day I had a look around, there is not much too see apart from the river and a few temples. Life in Laos relative to Thailand is a lot slower, for example there is hardly any traffic on the roads and given that Vientiane is the capital you would expect a little bit at least! So as I [View Full Entry]

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Its been a long time... Yeah I know, what can I say? Although I have been in Thailand over two months and whilst I have been stuck on a perfect tropical island most of the time I have not just been anchored to a beach for the entire duration. That is not strictly true but I will try and relay what I have been up to on this this strange little island to the best of my abilities! I have only been to two places so far in Thaliand, Bangkok for 2 days and Koh Chang for the rest of the [View Full Entry]

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So after an arduous 2 day journey out of India to Nepal I finally arrived in Pokhara only to be struck down by food poisoning, never mind... Before the horrific onset of the liquid conditions I did manage to get chatting to a couple of English guys called Gerry and Daren who were in Pokhara obtaining their Paragliding licences', I was exceptionally interested in their accounts of flying and so the seed was sown, I had to give it a try... After recovering I arranged to go trekking around Pokhara in the mountains and foothills of the Annapurna range for 6 [View Full Entry]

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Ok, I am back in India now! After a massive and cold 30 hour train journey from the pleasantly warm climate of Mumbai I finally arrived in a freezing Varanasi at dawn yesterday. Varanasi is on the Ganges, a river that sources far up in the Himalayas and flows eventually out into the Bay of Bengal through Bangladesh. It is a very large city of over 1 million people with the main attraction to the countless tourists being the Ghats. The Ghats and the Ganges really are very beautiful and colourful, it is like a being in another world and is [View Full Entry]

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Copenhagen is home to 1 million people including all the suburbs and is a really cool city. The weather was amazing when I was there which according to Katrine with whom I stayed (my friend from India) is unusual for this time of year. There certainly is plenty to do here, you need a big wallet though as it is even more expensive than London!!! There is a law that no building can be higher than 5 storeys in the city and being that Denmark is virtually all at sea level you don't get many opportunities to see the city from [View Full Entry]

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The Taj Mahal (meaning crown palace) is situated in the industrial town of Agra about 200km southeast of Delhi in Uttar Pradesh. I was compelled to get up early and see the Taj Mahal at sunrise as this is the best time to see it apparently, I was not disappointed. I entered through the east gate at 6.30 am. The Taj Mahal is the resting place of Emperor Shah Jahan's second wife, Mumtaz Mahal who died during labour. The white marble building houses her tomb and is surrounded by very well kept gardens and a red sandstone perimeter wall that makes [View Full Entry]

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