Right.. Bulgaria.. week one. Everything has been pretty good and worked out really well. We arrived on Sunday and had a few days chilling and getting used to Bulgaria before we have started volunteering in the Street Centre. Varna is definitely an upcoming city and is becoming more and more westernised every year. This time 20 years ago it was still under Soviet control and was really poor, dangerous and scummy! We are staying in X Hostel, which is in between Varna and Golden Sands and is a really nice and friendly hostel to stay at. There are both lone travellers and people interrailing in groups coming every day and we have felt really welcome here. There is a small beach about 15minute walk from the hostel, which is conveniently not that busy so is quite ... read more

I had the most amazing weekend! Arrived after a looonnnggg bus journey on Saturday and stayed at a pretty campsite called "The Waterfront" just outside of Livingstone. It has a really lovely bar overlooking the river and has the most amazing sunset along the river. So I set up camp and had dinner and all that jazz but it was amazing because when I went to bed you could actually hear the falls, I didn't realise this till the following day but I was actually 8k from the falls and I could still here them. The first day I went to visit the falls and they are spectacualr, despite the Zimbabwean side suppose bto being better than the Zambian side, the falls are stunning totally gobsmacking and these pictures just dont show the same thing. I ... read more

Heya... Just come back from 3 days in the bush and managed to fit in a lot. Set off at about 7am on Wednesday and arrived at about half3. It was a long journey but it was nice to see Zambia outside of Lusaka, it is a really pretty country with varying terrain of hills and flat. I was so glad when I got there that it is hotter than Lusaka. I actually tanned! Day1. Had a walk down to the river when we arrived and saw a crocodile and lots of tracks, which was really exciting becasue I had no idea what to expect when going out into the bush. The camp was lovely with lodges and set right next to the river. Stayed up for ages just listening to everything, it was amazing- lions, ... read more

Well my last day trip... and what a trip it was. We decided to take the bus right down to the tip of India. It was a public bus so it was very Indianised but thats cool becasue then you get a feel of Indian travel itself. we arrived about midday and then went to the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in which a guy was trying to convince us to pay him money but Im kinda used to that now. We then had a spot of lunch and headed just out of land to the memorial of a philospher which is practically and island jsut off the shore that you have to get a ferry to. I met like the womans institute of Chennai who were really friendly and decided to help us along a little bless. ... read more

So after a few hours on a train up north we landed ourselves up in Kochi. This train journey hasnt been as bad as previous ones and now, actually I dont really mind getting trains here at all, they arent all that bad! Especially if you stand up for a while and look outside by one of the doors, the views you get of the surrounding countryside are stunning. We stayed in a really homely, lovely homestay about 10 minutes walk from Fort Kochin, called Beenas homestay- who certainly cooked the best Indian food I have tasted and was also very generous helping organise trips and such like. In the afternoon, we walked up to the Chinese fishing nets, which were absolutely incredible, they were massive. A wealthy owner would buy one and then let it ... read more