Hello from the seriously scorching desert! We are in a small town with a population of 50,000 called Jaisalmer on the edge of the Thar desert about 50km from Pakistan. The whole place is built of (surprise surprise) sandstone and so we came from the blue city to the yellow one. It is ridiculously hot here and a little bit set back in time although, as everywhere, geared up for the tourist rupee as they wouldn't be doing much at all in this barren land if it was...

Hello from Jodhpur.We travelled here by car from Udaipur where we had a lovely time exploring the city palace and enjoying the stunning lakeside views in the "Venice of the east.'We got invited to this guys house which was quite random for Chai and whilst we were there I agreed to let his daughter henna my hand. It turned out to be a bit of a mistake because instead of the lovely pattern I was expecting I got some blobs, hearts and squiggles all over my ar...

Last time I wrote we were in Delhi about to leave for Agra. After reassuring us that his driver knew exactly where to drop us to catch our bus at 6am we booked a car with the owner of the guesthouse who told us we must leave at 5.15am. At 5.30 his driver turned up and then said he needed to strap our bags to the roof of the car whilst we got increasingly worried about making it there in time. He then proceeded to drive us to the hospital and started taking the ba...

Well out of the wilderness into the wild city of Delhi! We left Amritsar on the night train. Waiting on the platform we were approached by a Punjabi Sikh Guru who spoke at us smiling and clapped Charles on the back a few times. A young guy came up and started to translate "He says thank you so much for your friend (me) wearing traditional clothes. Many travellers come to our country and show no respect for our ways wearing sleevless tops and shorts. I would ...

Namaste from India. Well we are finding it really hard to believe we are actually here. When we left the UK India seemed such a hugely long way off and somewhere that we were really excited about going but didn't think much about because of everywhere else in the meantime. And now here we are- in probably the last country we will visit on our epic trip (although we are thinking about adding on Sri Lanka!) Our last week at the Disabled Newlife Centre in Kathman...