India the story so far... Aside from Al's ranting at the place there have been many delightful aspects to our time here, formost the Food has mostly been brilliant, certainly many more good experiences then bad. Even the plane food was better than edible! Secondly the architecture in some parts has been stunning, and fantastic artworks and very colourful. The people are helpful but they always expect a little piece of our western fortune for their trouble, and...

India the story so far... Aside from Al's ranting at the place there have been many delightful aspects to our time here, formost the Food has mostly been brilliant, certainly many more good experiences then bad. Even the plane food was better than edible! Secondly the architecture in some parts has been stunning, and fantastic artworks and very colourful. The people are helpful but they always expect a little piece of our western fortune for their trouble, and...

Hi - Al here, just thought I would supplement my lovely wife's scriptures with some typical grumpy AL pearls of wisdom. First and foremost - third class train travel in India is not for any man, women or child from the west. No-one can reclaim any vestige of self respect and dignity once you have had a four year old pee on your foot! Secondly - no amount of knowing normal English people makes up for the titanically fat northern monkess that hit the "tro...

Drakensburg - Balito - Namibia It has been a while since we have found internet cheap enough to update the blog. Sorry folks but lots to tell! After a spot of relaxing in Johannesburg, we headed for the Drakensburg mountains. We found a great hostel called the Ampithetre in the middle of absolutly nowhere. Although we had everything we desired bar, hot tub in the bar and some great people to drink with.... the only downside of this hostel being that everything ...

OVERVIEW A quick over view of where we have been so far as we've taken a while to get blogging! So far the path has taken us from Cape town through the wine regions, and the bars when there was no more wine region! Via the garden route (the coast) onward through the 3rd world of the Transkei onto Durban. We then flew away from Durban as quickly as possible, to Johannesburg. Where we've travelled to Magaliesberg, for a wild and very wet wedding, and taken refu...