After working out that we could get through to China via Tibet we decided to go to Sikkim without our bikes, come back to Nepal, climb Everest and then bike to China rather than gettting our legs blown off by land mines in Myanmar, hense the sikkim trip was purely bus riding, jeeps and trekking rather than the loveable bikes. Our 16hour bus ride left Kathmandu at 4pm and Katherine and i turned up with all the necessary snacks need, the other tourists were pretty gutted that they didn't have their food. All went pretty smoothly until it got dark, then people started lighting fires in the middle of the road and we of course drove over them. We then managed to hit almost every pot hole which made it pretty hard to sleep, this as ... read more

After not blogging for awhile, here is a short update. after a week in Kathmandu i went to the UK for Liz's wedding and Katherine went back to Pokhara and generally hung out and went rafting. Then we met back in Kathmandu where mum, dad, pete and scott all turned up a day later for our Annapurna Circuit trip. As most of you have either got petes blog or mums emails i'll keep this pretty brief and talk about the entertaining parts. We spent a couple of days hanging around Kathmandu visiting tourist sights and the like in which there was varrying degrees of enjoyment within the group. Katherine and i both throughly enjoyed the aircon drive by tour and perfected our queen waves whilst laughing at all the tourst that were doing the the hard ... read more

After spending too much time writing the last blog we didn't end up leaving Lumbini until a tad later than expected. This plus the fact my knee started playing up meant that we were about an hour behind schedule getting into town. Consequently, Katherine and I had our very first (and hopefully last) experience of night time riding with no lights in the pouring rain - NOT FUN!!. But we both lived to tell the tail and Katherine did manage to ride into a massive pot hole, dissappear for a few moment and then reappear with no significant damage to either her or the bike. From here we continued on our merry way to Kathmandu, cheating slightly and catching a bus up the hill to Kathmandu, primarily because there were so many trucks and buses. Our ... read more

So in our last update Katherine and I were realivately up beat about our fitness level and our treking experince, this is no longer the case - were are two of the more unfit people around, old ladies carrying twice as much as us were walking up the hill as we were trying to pull our sorry arses upwards. From the start.... After trying to get an expensive "flash tourist" bus but Katherine being told that she was too grubby we have decided that local buses are the way to go, they don't care how much you smell but they also don't care about dumping you in the middle of some random town with no where to stay and no way to leave. This random place of Nandaprayag is where our second trek started. Our trusty ... read more

hi all, have just arrived back in delhi from our tour of the "golden triangle". Saw the taj, agra fort, amber fort and heaps of other cool museums, temples, religous sights and historical stuff. The highlights so far are: - being escorted off the amber fort by a man with a gun for climbing the walls - being proposed to and followed on bikes with boys blowing kisses at us - wearing the dumbest ever sandal covers in the taj because a random said we "had" to - no one else was - Katherine being told that she looks amazing for a women who was 28 and had 3 chlidren - Driving on the indian motorway -Wearing pj's round delhi thinking that they were pants!!! See photos for more... read more