Hello! We woke up on Monday morning and I was slightly apprehensive as we were leaving our little 'home' but excited to be moving on from the bustling and noisy streets of Delhi! We had already packed most of our stuff the night before so we took all our bags down to reception and called our main man Kishore for a lift to the next hotel. He arrived in his little tuk tuk and put our luggage in the back, they may look small from the outside but they are quite r...

Yo yo yo! So yesterday we visited the Red Fort. It was beautiful but there wasn't much to see. Ellie told me to write that because I wrote "it was boring" and she told me off. First off we had a lovely lie in, to counteract all the early mornings we have had this week. So we dordled for a few hours, Ellie packed her stuff and was really unnerved that it was easy, I think she was expecting more of a struggle. Then the hotel owner's son (and our new friend Pu...

Hello! So just going to update on our last day working with the kids, we only worked the afternoon as in the morning we went for a 3 hour walk around Old Delhi. We woke up very early, 8am! that was a struggle (even though in England would be a nice lie in) we met Nick who volunteers for Salaam Balaak and he took Rachel, Mia and me to where we needed to meet our guide. We got the metro again to Chandni Chowk and then got a rickshaw (Mia and I were very apprehens...

Hello! For the past few days we've been in our little routine, so nothing MIND BLOWING has happened. We've made a couple friends through volunteering at Salaam Balaak - Franzi and Rachel. Franzi is from Germany and Rachel is from Manchester. We travel with them everyday on the metro. Today Rachel had to take one boy from the smaller boy shelter to the bigger shelter where we work (because the smaller one is only for holding the boys for a short period and if t...

Hello! So we have officially been here just over a week now, settling in to Delhi life well (kind of) and Mia is almost over her illness, bonus for both of us! So as Mia said we had a lovely day on Saturday and then yesterday we rang our tuk tuk driver and asked him to take us to a temple called Akshardham Temple, there was a Hindu festival on the same day called Shivratri Festival celebrating Lord Shiva. However we didn't see much celebrating at the temple it w...