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A Journey from the Madhouse to the Asylum

The Highlands and Beyond

VIETNAM | Wednesday, 25 Feb 2009 | Views [261] | Comments [2]

I guess we should tell you about Mui ne.  It's an oasis on the beach, surrounded by sand dunes.  The beach is about 7 kms long beautiful white sand and very very quiet.  We shacked up in a brand new hotel on the beach with swimming pool complete with ... Read more >


Vietnam Vietnam

VIETNAM | Monday, 9 Feb 2009 | Views [231]

Mui ne - WOW!


Good morning Vietnam

VIETNAM | Friday, 6 Feb 2009 | Views [328] | Comments [4]

Well Koh Samui was good, Chaweng beach is the best place to stay on samui lots of bars, places to eat and general tourist nonsense had a good week there.  Very expensive and too many touts (including timeshare!)for our liking.  We took the bus to Phuket, ... Read more >


Christmas and Beyond

THAILAND | Friday, 23 Jan 2009 | Views [327] | Comments [2]

We moved up to varkala into our prebooked hotel, the place is beautiful everything was good until the owner of the hotel asked Andy to move to a different hotel for a few days, we were having none of that so on the spur of the moment took flights via ... Read more >


Christmas On The Beach

INDIA | Monday, 8 Dec 2008 | Views [482] | Comments [6]

Well Diwali was really dissappointing, we stayed out till late and just saw and heard a few firecrackers, the men for burning were all lined up along the road (they are about 10ft tall) when we went back to the hotel about 11.30 so we assumed that they ... Read more >


Beach life Crisis!

INDIA | Monday, 27 Oct 2008 | Views [306] | Comments [2]

Hi, Andy employed a treking guide to get us back to the bus stand for Kathmandu- she was a really smart kid!  Andy paid her a 50 rupees fee, she walked us across the road and stopped the local bus and said "That'll take you to the bus stand"... Read more >


Rocky Mountain High

NEPAL | Friday, 3 Oct 2008 | Views [297] | Comments [3]

We flew into kathmandu a week ago, a massive difference to Delhi (only minor hassle and much cleaner!!). Unfortunately Andy has been quite ill (Man Problems!!!!, but has perked up considerably the last couple of days. Andy saw 3 doctors and got 3 different ... Read more >


Rocky Mountain High

NEPAL | Friday, 3 Oct 2008 | Views [307] | Comments [4]

We flew into kathmandu a week ago, a massive difference to Delhi (only minor hassle and much cleaner!!). Unfortunately Andy has been quite ill (Man Problems!!!!, but has perked up considerably the last couple of days. Andy saw 3 doctors and got 3 different ... Read more >


Singing in the Rain!!!!

INDIA | Saturday, 20 Sep 2008 | Views [319] | Comments [4]

We had a good overnight journey from Pushkar to Delhi followed by a crap all day (9 hours, average speed 18 miles per hour)journey to Dehra Dun.  Followed by a 1 hour local bus up the Himalya (7000 ft) to Mussoorie.  When we travelled the dehra Dun to ... Read more >


Welcome to the Zoo

INDIA | Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008 | Views [297] | Comments [2]

We are moving on tonight had a good time here except for the swimming pool (no water).  There's camels everywhere here they use them for work as well as tourism.  There's monkeys all over the town they are not very popular with the locals as they're ... Read more >


Jaipur and Pushkar

INDIA | Monday, 15 Sep 2008 | Views [315] | Comments [1]

Whilst in jaipur we did the pink city, chaos, hot and almost as mad as Dehli.  We also did a trip to the Amber Fort almost caused a fight (there's a jeep racket to take you the final 500yds. They charge more than a 200 mile bus journey costs.  We did ... Read more >


What a crazy place this is!

INDIA | Wednesday, 10 Sep 2008 | Views [426] | Comments [4]

Where to start? such a lot seems to have happened since we updated in this Agra. Well firstly th train journey for Delhi to Agra and back was fab a really well run journey (mainly just for us tourists), we even pluckd up the courage to eat the free ... Read more >


Welcome to India!

INDIA | Saturday, 6 Sep 2008 | Views [338] | Comments [2]

Hi, A bit tricky flying over, made huge mistake tried to blag an upgrade for Andy, treated like a leper!!.  Arrived in dehli 06.15 hotel pickup not waiting 6 phone calls 3 hours later driver arrives via wrong airport.  Welcome to India.  Hotel Ok- ... Read more >


Final Days in The Madhouse

UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 1 Sep 2008 | Views [301] | Comments [5]

No, we haven't gone yet 3 days to go! 1 bag each, small enough to go hand luggage, hotel booked for 2 nights in Delhi then the adventure begins!


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