(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...

Vaf-fa-Nepali - "Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times though." If Rita Rudner had been a Gurung woman living in the Terai part of Nepal, she would have said: "Before I met my husband, I wasn't allowed to do anything, and now I'm married I'm not really allowed to do much more."We were lucky enough to be in Nepal for the Festival of Teej, a day for Nepali women to part-ay. Kathmandu turned into a sea of red, green and gol...

Run DNC - Picture the scenes: On our first day volunteering at the disabled children's charity - the Disabled NewLife Centre (DNC), supported by the Nepali Children's Trust - James attempts small talk with a nine-year-old boy whose feet were amputated after he fell into a fire: "So, do you walk to school?" On our second day, James asked a boy born with no hands: "Do you want to play catch?" On our third day, James says to a mentally-slow girl with short hair: ...