Hey all, I have now successfully made it across to South East Asia and have spent the last week or so moving around a lot. I arrived in Bangkok about a week ago and found a decent guest house just off the infamous Khao San Road, the place was itself quite quiet and had a decent resturant. So I spent a couple of days seeing bangkok, i rather expected something similar to the Indian cities and was very much mistaken by the ultra modern clean city before me. In ...

Hi all Currently at the airport in Colombo waiting to catch the plane over to Thailand, while im here I thought I'd update you with what i've been up to... So after a pleasent christmas in Hikkaduwa I decided it was time to leave the beach for a bit and head up into the hills. I caught the train to Colombo and then bought a first class ticket (for a massive Rs300 or 1.30GBP) up to Kandy. The journey was very scenic and from the first class observation car you...

Hi all, Been in Sri Lanka a week now and spent in the south at the old portugese city of Galle and here at the beach resort town of Hikkaduwa. When I arrived in Galle is was to coinside with the start of the final test match between England and Sri Lanka, so I spent most of the first 5 days sitting on teh ramparts or in the ground weatching cricket, at least that was the plan but mother nature had other ideas and quite a lot of time was sitting in cafes waiting...

OK, the time has come for us to write the final installment of this blog from India, in a few short hours Fran will be boarding a plane destined back to blighty and I will be jetting down to continue my travels in Sri Lanka. In the last week since we last updated this, we have moved on from Goa up to Indias largest metropolis of Mumbai (Bombay). While we were in Panjim, we did a few day trips out to places in Goa, we visited a spice farm and we're shown the int...

Hello all! Sorry it's been a while but we been moving around a fair bit recently. Jon last wrote the day we arrived in Fort Cochin which was our last stop in Kerala. We spent 3 nights in Fort Cochin and managed to meet up with several people from earlier places. The first night there we joined Shaun, our dorm-mate from Alleppey, and a french guy for dinner followed by a traditional music performance at the Kerala Kathakali Centre. Was really good, but would h...