Hi Everyone It’s been a couple of weeks since our last update and we have been on some serious adventures since then so make sure you read. It’s worth it! OK so Bangladesh. WOW. What an interesting country it has been. Its hard to understand why so few tourists come here being so close to South East Asia and India etc. Bangladesh is seriously off the beaten track and during our stay here we only saw 6 foreigners in the whole country. This made all our experiences that little bit sweeter. First some random facts: 1. 32 people die in Bangladesh [View Full Entry]

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THE ROCKET - KHULNA TO DHAKA After we were helped by Major Russell in Bagerhat to book our Rocket tickets we boarded the P.S. Ostrich (First class) to take us from Khula north to Dhaka. Now will probably be a good time to mention that Bangladesh is probably one of the cheapest countries in the world so our minimum budget in India was non-applicable here. We lived in the midrange bracket!!!! Food is cheap, hotels are cheaper (as long as you don’t mind blood stains on the sheets) and transport is stupidly cheap. Average meal: 60p 1 hr on public bus: [View Full Entry]

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It really doesn’t help your patience when you have a dodgy tummy but the touts and nasty rickshaw drivers are like flies to shiz with the tourists in Agra. Unless you can afford a luxury AC automobile you’ll be harangued and hassled and bullied into visiting crummy guest houses owned by brothers or cousins and handicraft shops and other useless places. But Tom made it very clear to our rickshaw driver that our answer to all of the above was NO. Then the driver sat in silence for a bit before he said “Angry is not good”. To which Tom replied [View Full Entry]

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There were the 56 mosquito bites, then the fall into a puddle of mud which ripped my toe open, there’s been bird shit in the hair, a bucket of dirty water thrown over my head from over a balcony, everyone remembers “Operation Drive-by”, there was the nasty hangover on the cattle-class train (self inflicted pain doesn't count I guess) AND I’ve had a wart on my hand …. BUT last week took the cake. I threw up at the front door of the Taj Mahal. Yep… the stomach bug to kill ALL stomach bugs and I got it. Let’s just say [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone. Since VV’s last post we have been to two places: 1: Delhi OK, So we were well prepared for this one. After being warned by a few people that Delhi is one of those necessary things you have to visit quickly and then get out of and 2 pages in the guide book advising you of all the scams to avoid we arrived about lunch time completely covered in sand dunes, dirt and good knows what else. On the approach to the city the tracks were lined with tonnes of rubbish and people burning plastic and large streams of [View Full Entry]

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Its the day after Diwali and everything is closed....except for this internet cafe. Weve pretty much spent the day in our room in front of the telly cause we couldnt get a train or a bus out of here because of the holidays. Weve watched The Exorcist, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Friends and Home Alone 2 starts in an hour so we gotta be quick! Right now we are in Jaisalmer. The most deserty of the desert cities in Rajasthan. The old fort towers over the alley ways that are lined by shops and beautiful hawalis and the whole place [View Full Entry]

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We’re SO glad we stopped in Junagadh. First off it was 10 000 steps instead of the initially thought 7000 but what’s 3000 between fiancés?????? So we arrived in Junagadh, checked into a decent little hotel. Got some nice Thali - Vegetarian of course and then went to bed. Alarm set for 5am. We tried to sleep with all the madness outside resembling something like Swat Valley in Pakistan. Anyway, after being woken by the alarm and debating if we should sleep in and do it another day we decided to get up and get are arses into gear (with friendly [View Full Entry]

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I think I’ll just ignore that last post and put it back as far as possible in the depths of my mind with the half rotten dead dog we saw on the side of the road in Ellora and the person who got knocked off their moped in Panaji. After some “do we, don’t we” discussions about Diu we decided “we do” and hopped on a bus from Aurangabad three days ago. Despite not providing the picturesque beaches we thought it might, Diu has been a nice break from the cities, cars and noise. We hired another scooter and as sure [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone. More of a newsflash than a proper update. On a night bus from Aurangabad to Ahmedabad. 8:00pm we stop for a toilet break. VV is nicely relaxed on the bus and i suggest to her that now is the time to go to toilet if she needs to coz we probably won’t stop until the morning. She says she is fine and doesn’t need to go. 8:10pm After 10 minute break, the bus continues on its path north 8:27pm About 20 minutes later Vanessa produces a horrific smell that could kill a small child. I dismiss it as a [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone. Thomas here! VV is busy updating her CV for job stuff (I know I know, she never stops does she) so I have been elected as chief blog do-a-ra. Ok so for the last 6 days we have been in north Goa in a place called Anjuna. It’s basically a beach town famous for a Wednesday flee market on the beach and sun and sea and other beachy goings on. Because its been low season on our trip so far we have seen very few westerners but the first thing we noticed about this place is that its full [View Full Entry]

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