Varanasi to PuriWe DID get up at dawn in Varanasi to go down to the ghats, but it was pitch black, there'd been torrential rain overnight and we didn't think that two girls stumbling around in the sludge and dark was a good idea, not one of our best decisions! We knew that dawn would be dismal, so we went back to our hotel beds for a couple of hours, and woke up at 9 to yet more torrential rain...We had a soggy day wandering around Varanasi and got so tir...

Well, we've survived nearly 2 weeks in India! It was a bit of a shock to the system at first, Delhi was just all hustle and bustle and nothing like we've ever seen before. Auto-rickshaws, cycles, rattling buses everywhere, all honking horns and ignoring road markings... mayhem! We did a bit of sight-seeing in Delhi, ate some street food, wandered along the crowded and chaotic main market, and booked our first train journey...From Delhi we travelled by sle...

Not having taken a gap year before uni, Sara and I both felt like we'd like a little rest from the brain stuff once we'd graduated. So a couple of summers ago, while sitting on the edge of a dock, swinging our dusty bare feet over the water and watching dusk fall on the sleepy inlets and saltmarshes of Wachapreague, Virginia, we had one of those casual conversations that lead to big things. We decided to take a gap year after uni and go backpacking, seein...