Good afternoon blog readers! It's 12:51 here (so Dom you can go for your lunch break from 'work' if you were here!) We left Pushkar on a bit of a low since we'd been ripped off for our hotel (they made us pay 200Rps extra) and after telling them THREE times that we were leaving at 6am they still locked the front gates!!! Our taxi was waiting outside and we had to brave going past a rabid Alsation dog to knock on the manager's house! Eventually we got to the rat infested Ajmer station and our train was slightly late but we got into Jaipur station about 10am. We got a rickshaw to the airport where we were refused entry by some butch looking woman army person. Disaster. Apparently the airline (Deccan Air) we booked our ... read more

Hello! A proper blog this time as promised! I'm thinking that the last blog finished when we were just leaving Shimla so we'll go from there... We had another toy train ride from Shimla to Kalka. It's a bit like the Mouse Runner ride at Flamingo Land (Dom, Pete and even Mum! will know what I'm on about) which hurtles you round corners at quite a height. Rather than having lots of screaming children and other rides going on around you, we had the Himalayan foothills to look at instead (probably a bit better). We then had an overnight sleeper train from Kalka to Delhi which was great. We met a couple of Indians from Kerala who told us all about the south (now dead excited) and just chatted generally about India and England. We got ... read more

Hello again! Ok so we've got a little bit more time now to fill you in on what we've done since Delhi! The Smyle Inn Hotel was great and let us keep the room for the rest of the day because our train wasn't until 9:40pm and check out time was noon. We went for a walk in the afternoon around our hotel area called Paharganj. Saw some amazing markets, got harrassed constantly for rickshaws and went down some back alleys. This was a slight mistake as we soon got a little lost and there were 4 rabid dogs fighting down one of the alleys we needed to go down! Managed to make a little detour and some of the locals were helpful in finding our way back. It was so hot in Delhi we could ... read more

Good evening from Delhi! We woke up pretty early after hardly any sleep due to excitement on Thursday morning before catching a train out of Selly Oak to Moor Street. Managed to get a train to London Marylebone for $3.30 (they don't have a pound sign on these keyboards!). Bummed around London for lunch before getting the tube out to Heathrow Terminal 4 (we were meant to be going out of the new Terminal 5 but it got changed - gutted). Our flight left at 5:20pm but on all the big TV screens in the airport it was on BBC News saying there was a crash at Heathrow which was slightly worrying. The BA Flight was absolutely brilliant. We got fed literally every 2 hours and watched loads of movies (Sex and The City, Phone Booth, ... read more