Leaving Gili Air was always going to be difficult but we were committed to make the wedding of a good friend. This was for the best as otherwise we may well just have stayed for far too long particularly after the offer of a few weeks free diving to help out with around 40 school kids coming to clean the local 'bio-rock' - a big metal cage with an electric current running through it which stimulates coral growth. This is there in the hope that the island can rege...

Having left the Shekhawati region we made our way in an old white taxi along to Bikaner, a desert town to the west of Delhi. Here we went straight to 'Vijay's paying guesthouse' to meet the 'Camel man' Vijay himself. Vijay is one of two of the main men when it comes to camels and being right in the middle of the desert we thought we really had to find some desert ships to spend a few days with. The first night we stayed in the main town and quickly discovered th...

Earlier this week I was beginning to be a little worried. Only 4 days after finishing up at work I had a beard, had been strictly sticking to a vegetarian diet and was living on an eco-farm in Shekhawati. We both knew it was a risk when we left to take a year off work but the speed at which we appeared to have become new age plant worshippers really took us both by surprise... Please don't be too worried by this revelation, I know how it looks on first glance b...

While we have met many friendly people in our short time here so far and it is also apparent that the Indian nation loves celebrating at any opportunity possible, it came as somewhat of a surprise to wake up on Saturday the 15th August, officially the first day of our year off work having finished up in the Delhi office on Friday the 14th (Krishna's birthday by the way), to see on the television that the whole nation was joining us in rejoicing our new found inde...

With the intention of trying to cut the umbilical cord attaching us to the corporate and wider western world we have now begun the first phase of our 12 month rehabilitation to cure us of our unhealthy obsessions with suits, offices and the London tube. We have now begun this process in somewhat of a transition period as, while we have left London and are now in Delhi, I am still working for the same company for another 5 days before we start our trip in earne...