Top of the Hops - After almost six months of country-, island-, mountain-, beach- and bar-hopping, here's our trip in figures and our conveyor belt of 'Best Ofs.' It also includes the list of beers we've drunk at the end (for Wardy and Mav's interest) which are also related to hops. Clever huh? 176 days away from Blighty 8 countries visited 13,500 km travelled overland 95 beds slept in 1.85 days: average time spent in one place 24 bu...

Funniest Quotes of the Trip - We think that this may be our favourite blog. The Global Village that is the world is definitely missing some idiots and we were lucky enough to meet many of them over the last six months. In the order in which it happened, this is the result: "My wedding was absolutely atrocious" the Spanish Wedding Planner that we decided not to go with the day before our departure. "I'd never bank anywhere other than Barclays" the sales manager ...

(Almost) The Final Blog - We're almost finished. 176 days away from England and we've got 1 to go. We said at the start of the trip that we wanted to make sure that our blog was a little more than a chronological account of our day to day activities. We hope that we've kinda succeeded but, for our (almost) final blog, we thought we'd go back to blog-basics and run through a chronological account of the day to day activities of our final 20 days in India. It'...

The Homecoming - This time next week, we'll be on a plane bound for Heathrow, marking the end of our six month travels. They say that there are only two emotions on a plane: boredom and fear. For us, it will be a different two: excitement at seeing everyone and awaiting new adventures around the corner; and a huge case of Sunday Night Blues that such an amazing period of our lives is over. To put a smile in our airmiles, here's what we're looking forward to: 1....

India: do we love it or hate it? - This is surely the question that lingers on the lips of most first time visitors to India. And justifiably so - however good we think our preparation has been during the previous 5 months of our trip, nothing can quite prepare you for rolling over the border into India. So lets unpick the evidence! As with all our blogs, this is as it happened; we're not ones for fabrication or exaggeration. Fact, not fiction! We think we hat...