I should probably start with a belated MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I hope that everyone's holidays have been merry and joyful and that (if you're in England reading this) the weather wasn't too cold and miserable :-) Spending Christmas in India is always different from celebrating the holidays back home - I've written before about my lack of Christmas spirit leading up to the event - but in the end the important parts were the same: excellent food, bea...

I logged onto here yesterday to try and upload some more photos (unsuccessful I'm afraid due to a dodgy internet connection - will try again tomorrow!) and almost missed the coolest, most amazing thing. On the homepage of http://beta.offexploring.com/ my blog was officially Travel Blog of the Day! I know it's not a massive thing but to me it's absolutely huge. I can't stop smiling! I really am enjoying writing the blog so much so it really does feel awesome to ha...

It's officially been two months since I got on a plane at Manchester airport and left England for sunnier climbs and I honestly can't believe how quickly it's gone. So many people said to me before I left, "you'll be back before you know it" and to be honest, I didn't really believe them. But suddenly I'm a third of the way through my trip and sometimes I feel like I only just arrived. People suggesting that I got here yesterday doesn't help either - apparently s...

I've been in Goa for almost a month now and I can't believe how quickly time passes here. I'm settling into a routine of sorts, although not one which results in me knowing what day it is when I wake up - it really is strange opening your eyes in the morning and having to work out what day it is and knowing the date rarely seems to matter! The main change in the last week or so is that I no longer feel like I'm on a month long holiday which is about to end, I've ...

My blogging so far has very much been an online diary of my daily travels, doing different things every day and documenting my trip in a timeline of sorts. Now I'm in Goa I've realised that this is absolutely not going to work. I've been here for over two weeks now and it's all blurred into one, I wake up in the morning and literally don't know what day it is. So my new strategy is to be more topical, with today's subjects being the police, piercings and living i...