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Trip: India and SE Asia

There are [14] stories from my trip: India and SE Asia


Go Go Goa

INDIA | Sunday, 20 Jun 2010 | Views [269]

Ahhh, to our final stop in wonderful India... a little known (!!) place called Goa   We arrived in the fashion we'd grown accustomed - on a train but at a station we'd not intended.... we'd planned to go to Margao but we actually got off the train ... Read more >


Karnataka - we'd never heard of it before either

INDIA | Sunday, 13 Jun 2010 | Views [242]

Hello people, Sorry - I've just spent two hours typing up and finishing our adventures on word and saving it constantly BUT all my hard work is no more... The power went off in the hotel at a most evil moment and it's lost forever... I can't re-type ... Read more >


South to the sea and sand, Kerralan style

INDIA | Monday, 7 Jun 2010 | Views [260]

It was eerily quiet as we took the taxi across the empty streets of Calcutta on what was our last morning in the great city, we had awoken very early that day, not through choice you understand but because we had a plane to catch and even on an internal ... Read more >


Oh Calcutta!

INDIA | Monday, 31 May 2010 | Views [520]

Oh Calcutta where oh where to begin with this wonderful jewel of india? how about the beginning... we arrived, for once, at our destination on time, thats right you read correctly, the train was on time (which for an indian train is a miracle) and as ... Read more >


Tea and Pee in Darjeeling, Darlings.

INDIA | Monday, 31 May 2010 | Views [727]

Hello lovely people, how lazy have we been writing this blog...?! Sorry everyone, we promise to try and have less fun and get on with it! So from 8pm to 12.30am we waited and waited some more for the party train to NJP station - the jump off point for ... Read more >


Don't drink the water!

INDIA | Friday, 30 Apr 2010 | Views [415] | Comments [1]

(A little bit to start about Agra's Cantonment train station 1) we met a disgruntled Mancunian in a Belle & Sebastian TShirt - how Pills face lit up! 2) Got 5 Rupees change (about 7p) and gave it too a little Lad who was asking for cash on the ... Read more >


Delhicious

INDIA | Sunday, 11 Apr 2010 | Views [318] | Comments [1]

Capital City fun! We made it in one piece to Delhi, new and old. Very much looking forward to this experience and seeing the many different sides to India in the one place. We met a lovely chap called Daniel from New York (no I'm not envious of where ... Read more >


The joy of Jaipur

INDIA | Tuesday, 6 Apr 2010 | Views [533] | Comments [1]

We arrived in Jaipur at about 8pm to an onslaught of rickshaw drivers and general pushy salesman, 'friendly helpers' and general chaos. As we had decided to walk to our hotel (we had no reservation so to call it our hotel at this stage is being a tad ... Read more >


Pushka ka ka ka ka

INDIA | Tuesday, 6 Apr 2010 | Views [339] | Comments [1]

Ola, So - next installment now.... We left Jodpur at the crack of dawn (it was only us, a few auto rickshaw drivers and the men with the grass for the cows about) to catch the train to Ajmer, which is the jumping point for the bus to Pushka. A gentle ... Read more >


Nights in jodhpur

INDIA | Thursday, 25 Mar 2010 | Views [506]

jodhpur through the eyes of  pill   yeah like the funny trousers (which technically are not those horsey ones ones that posh girls wear... news to me too).   firstly though i need to address our journey... as there are no trains from udaipur to jodhpur ... Read more >


udai-tastic

INDIA | Thursday, 25 Mar 2010 | Views [265]

Hello again everyone,   Hope all is mostly very well with all of you - sorry we've been a bit tardy with keeping up with this blog. Tut tut, must do better Gracie and Ginger Silk... no gold stars... Now, we are sure you'll all be vastly overjoyed to ... Read more >


A tale of 2 cities....

INDIA | Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010 | Views [343] | Comments [4]

Big hellos from Pushkar, We're currently sat in a natty little internet cafe surrounded by Westerners with dread-locked hair and Thai Fishermans trousers on... we stand out somewhat! I've put my Mexican day of the dead skirt on especially - what ... Read more >


We got here!!

INDIA | Friday, 5 Mar 2010 | Views [419] | Comments [1]

Hello everyone, We're currently sat in a sweaty little shack, off a busy street in downtown Mumbai where people seem to like selling everything in the world ever. Overall first impressions are great although nothing we type can really illustrate the ... Read more >


Bye!

INDIA | Tuesday, 2 Mar 2010 | Views [299]

See y'all in 4 months......