Beautiful Belgrade...what a city! I have to say, when we first got off the bus and started walking to our hostel we were really not sure about the city we were in. Abandoned buildings, graffiti everywhere, we felt a little unsafe as we made our way down the backstreets of Belgrade to the Spirit Hostel which was to be our home for the next few nights. But the longer you spend there and the more you understand the history of what the city has been through, unattractive though it may be on the surface, the more the beauty of it grows on you. It is a city of contrasts with small underground bars found next to blaring, show-offy ‘Silicon Valley’ and by the time we left, we both thought that the longer you stayed there, the ... read more

The first blog of our new adventure! As we write this we are lying in bed in Belgrade having cups of tea and lazing our morning away...we are on holidays after all! We are two weeks into our ten weeks of travel and thought it high time we update you all on what we are doing. The plan over the next ten weeks is to try to do one blog for each country (ish)...and if we can’t think of enough to write we will just bombard you with photos! Of course, we don’t really expect anyone but our families to read what we write...so for everyone else just enjoy the pics! J To start off we need to cast our minds back to London...ah London...our second home. It was so good/familiar/exciting to be back in our ... read more

We took a 14 hour taxi from Rishikesh to make it here to Manali. We shared it with Dani from our trek. The drive was a long painful journey of slow windy roads. What made it more uncomfortable was our driver, he was really creepy and quite rude to us all. He would stare inappropriately at the girls and seemed totally unimpressed with my presence. There was no friendly conversation, although anytime one of the girls was by themselves, me and the other out of the car or asleep, he would try and strike up some weird conversation. Neither felt very comfortable and I was getting some unusual glares in the mirror. I moved to the front seat at one point, so the girls could have the back. He didn’t like this change and at any ... read more

A cow walks aimlessly down a busy road. A hawker spots a tourist from afar and prepares their gimmick for action. A women sells fresh fruit on the side of a busy polluted road. A dog relieves himself in the middle of a crowded bazaar. A family of five fly past on their barely safe motorbike. Some not so uncommon sights to see here…amazing, frustrating, colourful, filthy…we can tell already we are going to have a love/hate relationship with India. The first thing that anyone is going to notice when first travelling in India is the attention you get as a foreigner. Everyone just stares, mostly males, and mostly at me. We have people grabbing us to get their photos taken with us and others coming up to shake our hands…it’s crazy! At one of the ... read more

Konichiwa! Our adventure continues! We‘ve now sadly left Tassie to carry on with our ‘round the world‘ tour. First stop was Tokyo, which was the perfect place to start! This place is buzzing, it gave us a real charge and brought back our enthusiasm for travelling again! Things got a bit too comfortable for us in Tassie… but we are certainly more upbeat now. Tokyo is such a crazy city, but extremely well executed at the same time. It’s undoubtedly the cleanest city I have ever been to …everything is presented to absolute perfection, nothing less. The streets…where no smoking is allowed, except for designated smoking areas, were spotless. The food….incredible, mostly displayed outside the restaurants in glass casings…real food is not displayed but plastic models of the real stuff…even drinks are on display (without missing ... read more