I last left you guys with me arriving in Boston after a rather gruelling 32 hours of flight. Spent the rest of the week working pretty much all day and all night, although the work was punctuated with lots of food and fun as well!! Still - was missing my girl, and getting far too many late nights, and it was all a bit too much - so when the weekend came up, I turned down all the kind offers for entertainment and opted to go check out Boston on my own!! So let me tell you a bit about Boston. [View Full Entry]

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Hi everybody! Well, after last year's round-the-world whirlwind, we couldn't quite get rid of the travelling bug - so here we are re off on another trip!! This one is slightly different to the last one though. I (Dave) will be travelling for work for a few weeks, going to the US (Boston, New Jersey, Denver), followed by London, Dublin and Norway!! And then the fun begins for real - I will be meeting my girl in China, and we're spending 10 days there! Not sure how much I'll write while doing the work thing - I suspect that you can [View Full Entry]

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Right! Time to write. It's always hard to get the first words out, however as you all know, once I get started it's hard to stop me!! I left Sydney on the 26th of July. Had an emotional farewell with my girl Sunday morning 7am at the airport. It was really sad to say bye - we were going to be apart for a whole 3 weeks, which is the longest we've ever been separated. So even though I was excited to be leaving on another expedition (yay!), I was also sad to be saying bye to my gorgeous wife (boo!). [View Full Entry]

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Well we are home again and I just wanted to finish this blog with some reflections on our trip. It truly was the trip of a lifetime and I think that we learnt more about the world and each other in four months than we have in the last four years! Even though we have attempted to capture some of the wonders that we have seen on these blogs, when we re-read them now they just don't seem to capture the soul of the place. Maybe that's just an analytical observation of our writing style and pics though :) There are [View Full Entry]

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Well, it's been a really long long while since we updated you all with our story, but we thought it's time to do so again. In the last blog, we were dying in delhi, slightly fed up of the whole heat, travel, tout thing, possibly a bit homesick... all in all, we didn't really leave India feeling like victorious conquerors because we knew that we hadn't really seen much at all! But that was the past. Angkor Wat was the future! A few years ago, we had been to Thailand, and had intended to go over to Angkor.. Angkor had always [View Full Entry]

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So - we're on the road to Delhi. Our final stop in India. We have completely failed to be Intrepid Travellers so far, and have piked out on most things due to the heat and a general lack of enthusiasm for all things Indian in general... But we are looking forward to Delhi. Why you may ask? Is it because it's the capital of the nation? Huge bustling crowds? Largest mosque in India? The famous red fort? Huge cosmopolitan food and night life? Nope. We were looking forward to it because we were staying at the Intercontinental as a treat, and [View Full Entry]

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So finally we were on the way to the main reason that we were in India - The Taj Mahal!!! It is located in Agra, a city about 3 hours south of Delhi and we landed in the early afternoon from Jaipur having caught a train very early in the morning. What is amazing about India is that there are always people sleeping everywhere... i mean - station platform floors - there will be hundreds of people stretched out and sleeping soundly on the concrete. I used to think that i had a gift for sleeping but i discovered that it [View Full Entry]

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After a few days in Mumbai, we headed out to Jaipur. Originally we had planned to head south to Aurangabad, to see the world famous Ellora and Ajanta caves - but unfortunately there were no tickets available on the trains, and we didn't want to hang around until there was availability - so regretfully we had to skip on this!! Next time I guess - but a word of warning to future travellers - book your tickets at least 3 days before you want to travel!! Let's talk about trains for a bit. The train system in India is actually really [View Full Entry]

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Well, we finally have gotten around to writing the next update... a huge apology to all of you who have been waiting for this one!! We last left off arriving at Mumbai airport after a ridiculous 2 day journey from Kigali... So here we were in Mumbai! We worked our way through the rather disappointingly small airport, got our bags, figured out how taxis worked in the country, and headed off to our hotel! Now we had heard lots of stories about taxi drivers in the lonely planet and from other travellers. Basically, one of the most popular scams is where [View Full Entry]

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Hooray!! Time to go to India! After enduring what seemed like an interminable period of incredibly boring food, it was time to go somewhere where they used spices!! We had been looking forward to India for a variety of reasons. Apart from the food, there was the culture, the insane traffic, and of course several centuries of history and architecture to look at!! We were also steeling ourselves for the horde of beggars that we imagined descending upon us even as we left the airport... Our lonely planet told us that June is NOT the time to go to India, as [View Full Entry]

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