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Ah yes... how do you end a journey across the world over 3 months?... but on the sandy warm beaches of Goa of course! Not much happened here. Morning: Internet for a bit updating my travelblog. Afternoon: Sit on the beach or at our favourite restaurant overlooking the beach. Evening: Watch a few movies, then head out for a nice King Fish grilled dinner in garlic and lemon sauce. Wednesday was a bit of an exception, the Wednesday beach flea markets were at the beach! So we browsed all afternoon, bought a few things, my best purchase was... THE OM SHANTI OM SOUNDTRACK!!!!!! Later on Wednesday I bid farewell to my fellow travel companion as Steve headed off to explore the remainder of his India trip. I, on the other hand, had a flight home to ... read more

On our way to Badami we had to switch busses twice. On our second transfer we were in Bijapur and with a few hours to kill we took a rickshaw for a tour of the city to see some cool sights. Our driver spoke no English, out of all the drivers at the bus stop that did, we somehow ended up with the one that didn't. He just sat there, drove and when asked anything wobbled his head, identical to a bobble head car ornament. This, according to the Lonely Planet, can mean yes, no, maybe or something else in India. We stopped at some tombs where we had to take our shoes off (quite normal for any temple in India), walk clockwise around the tombs, rub smoke on our face and ashes on our neck. ... read more

Arriving at 2AM at Mumbai International, the temperature outside?... 26 degrees Celcius. We jumped in a taxi for Colaba (a more touisrty part of town) which was one of the greatest rides of all time. Who cares about traffic lights, speed limits, designated lanes or even on-coming traffic in India?... apparently no one. Driving through the city I tasted about 100 different smells per minute, from the constant smell of raw sewage, to rotting fish, burning garbage, food, sweat, smog and a varying mixture of the above and many I couldn't determine. India, being the second largest country in the world (after China) at over 1.2 billion is obviously over populated by the enormous amounts of people including entire families sleeping on the street, under carts or on top of cars. I couldn't walk more than ... read more

Well with only a few nights left in Europe, we decided to move our way back to one of the best cities among Eastern Europe, Prague... or as its truly called, Praha. We checked in late, as Steve took up most of the day sleeping and puking. But alas we headed out to a club called the Cross Club which was one of the most interesting bars I have ever attended. It was covered in used car parts... but these parts were clean, and welded together to make amazing decorations. They had lights embedded in them and their gears turned and rotated all the time, throwing crazy lights and shadows against the walls. The music however was that of trance and dark death rock of which I am not fond of. So we only stayed for ... read more

Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. The appearance, meh not so good... it appeared more communist looking than any other city we have visited with almost every apartment building looking the same as each other with a very flat and square appearance. On our first night here being Saturday, we headed out to find a good place to have some drinks. We followed some locals we met to a bar named Charlie's. Here the bouncers charged me and Hawk triple the cover charge and by the end of the night after numerous drinks the bouncers (I beleive it was the bouncers) stole some money and my camera as I left the club. Unfortunately, Hawk had disappeared earlier as he is known for so I made my way back to the hostel by way of a taxi, a ... read more