Monday wasn’t actually very smug at all, it was actually pretty rubbish. We spent eight hours in a car driving to Pushkar, and then spent another hour and a half listening to daddy have arguments about rubbish hotels. A few days later though, we arrived at Agra… We have now been to the Taj, Read More
Day five of our whirlwind tour of Rajasthan in a car saw us in Jodhpur and the ‘Blue City’ has turned out to be one of our favourites. We stayed at K.P. Haveli Hotel for two nights, recommended by our Lonely Planet guide book no less. An interesting mish-mash of rooms beautifully decorated with, Read More
Our first day in Delhi was a bit overwhelming after the relative calmness of Nepal. Despite the posh new airport being a bit like Heathrow, our taxi driver was still quite aggressive and the street our hotel was on was still in the main market street which was a huge scrum of people, stalls,, Read More
It has been thirteen years since we were in Delhi, and in that time, the city seems to have completely changed. It was the last point on our first India tour and it’s safe to say that by the time we arrived, we were thoroughly India’d out. We’ve started our India tour in, Read More
I’m struggling with where to start with this post. There are so many things, opinions and stories to tell that it’s difficult to know where to begin. I don’t want to write a diary type post, where I just catalogue what happened on each day, as that would have to be about 10,000, Read More
We’ve pretty much based the dates for the whole year’s adventure with the kids around the trekking seasons in Nepal, so, you can imagine the levels of excitement as we piled into our massively overpriced jeep (there’s a fuel shortage you know, and getting hold of petrol is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive) and, Read More
Today Evan got bitten by a leech. A fly landed on his boot, he looked down and a leech was climbing out of his boot. There was blood tricking down his foot! We were in Kinche on the way to Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal when this one happened but it had happened before, Read More
Today me and my dad went to Poon Hill (Spoon Hill as I call it). I got woken up at four o ‘clock in the morning. Then I was forced to put on my clothes (all of the clothes I owned), it was NOBLIN!!! Plus, to add to this it was pitch black., Read More