So this is the last blog... I hope I hear a giant "Awh!" from 5000 miles away! Has anyone heard of McLeod Ganj? This is apparently where the Dalai Lama is in 'hiding' along with about 10,000 other Tibetans. The place is beautiful, like Darjeeling only quiter, the people give you no hassle (except the few from Rajastan who have made a point of spoiling this place) and the walk around here are breathtaking. From our hotel room we had a fantastic view of t...

Apologies for the eroneous picture in this blog but there seems to be nothing to do in New Delhi... this isn't far from the truth! Katherine still unwell so the furthest we got on the first day was Connaught Place a modern shopping arcade... or at least that's what lonely planet says... its far from that. Will we ever see anything modern in India? I have read a lot about the attrocities of the British in India and this was most certainly evident when I visited th...

I will keep this short and sweet because the internet is useless (and the computer has probably found a way to transfer a virus into my skin!) We stayed at a lovely guesthouse (which was inevitably being renovated at this time of year; as is every GH in India!) with a roottop terrace and fantastic views of the Taj Mahal. On our first Day there we payed the extortionate fee of 750 rupees each (about 10pounds; now this may seem ok but bare in mind that you can live...

So, we left for Varanasi 2 days ago... we got a shared jeep from Darjeeling to Siliguri (which took almost 4.5 hours after waiting for the jeep to fill up) then an auto-rickshaw to the train station 12km away. We waited hear for an a few hours for our train to Patna (Katherine decided as we had so long we should buy our onward train ticket to Varanasi - this wasn't until 2pm the next day and would take 8hrs). We got the train to Patna and arrived at 3.30am - so w...

Before we left Calcutta we went to find a group of chldren we had met a few days previously. They had invited us to play cricket in the street with them using something representing a ball and a metal stick. They were so sweet to us that we thought we should return the favour so Jon, Joe and I headed to the shops and found them a cricket bat and ball which we gave to them before we left. I don't know who was more pleased-them for receiving a cricket bat or us for...