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The New Blog

Hello again. I’m going to try and resurrect this little travel blog of ours and turn it into a life blog. I’ve got a few reasons for writing again, so let me explain. First of all, more people than I could have imagined have read about our travels via this website. Friends have passed [...]

Meditation in Nepal and “The End”

Hola / Namaste / Tashi Delek, Get yourself a drink and a snack , this is a long one. We left India via Delhi’s very un-Indian, ultra-modern airport that included such modern conveniences as bathrooms with automatic flushing toilets (some of which worked) and hot air hand dryers! Very futuristic. Upon arrival in Kathmandu we discovered [...]

Ladakh and Zanskar

Hello again. It’s only been a couple of weeks since our last update, but as usual, in our super-cool lives of high drama and fascinating adventure, a lot has happened. After the excruciatingly long, worst bus ride of our lives (until this week that is) we arrived in Leh, the capital of Ladakh. As [...]

Manali to Leh Road

Hello, Please make sure that you read the entry below this one first! After Dharamsala we took one of those wonderful Indian night buses to Manali. Along the way, the driver stopped for food (he was the only one eating, as everyone else had logically eaten before the 20:30 bus) at a roadside restaurant where there [...]

Goodbye Little Tibet

Hello, Before you start this, please make sure you read this one before the entry titled Manali to Leh Road. After around four weeks we have finally left McLeod Ganj. I guess the length of time that we stayed tells you something about how much we enjoyed being there. Enjoy is really not the word. [...]

The Holy Lands

In my haste to get out an update last week I left out a few other bits and pieces. I forgot to mention that in Delhi we visited the Baha’i House of Worship, which is more commonly known as the Lotus Temple as it resembles a giant concrete lotus flower. It’s quite a [...]

Living the Ashram Life

So, after our arse-pinching arrival into Delhi, we fought our way past the cows and surge of humanity down to the dump of a tourist ghetto where all of the cheap hotels are located. I won’t even describe this street because it’s not worth it. But, on to Delhi. It’s huge. It’s [...]

Feeling the Heat

We made our way to Hampi via a night bus from Bangalore. All throughout the trip, we had been hearing about Hampi, and what a great place it was. The Lonely Planet talks about boulders and ruins, which doesn’t exactly tell you much, but everyone we spoke to was in agreement that it [...]

South India

After arriving back on the mainland at Chennai, we boarded the bus to Pondicherry, a former French colonial city that will be famous to readers of the novel Life of Pi. The city is divided into two parts; which I’ll refer to as the French Bit and the Indian Bit. The Indian Bit [...]

We Return to India

On the bus from Kathmandu to the Indian border, we met Mylo, a 50 something aging hippy from Liverpool who had been living in Goa for the past few years. He was our train companion for the 19 hour journey to Kolkata as well. He was funny as hell and had Michaela crying with laughter [...]