Malaka is normally a sleepy fishing village on the west coast of Malaysia, however Kimberley and I had managed to go during the children's school holidays there for even the buses to get there were packed full of families heading the same way as us for a little week break.To cross the boarder into Malaysia you have to cross a river and in the middle of the river is the boarder line where you disembark the bus, pass through 2 passport controls (one for each countr...

Hello everybody Im sorry it has been so long since I last wrote on this blog but I promise that I am now attempting to catch up and inform you all of what I have done and where I have been in the last month. So I left India with a mixed feeling in my stomach - in one sense I was excited to move onto a new country and even a new continent and I truely believed that I had seen as muh of India as I could handle in one trip, but on the other hand I was nervous to g...

I left Varanasi with Kimberley on a train which took 32 hours -Yeah you read it right 32 HOURS! I know that sounds like a hell of a long time but India is a huge country and whilst travelling around it I didn't do a journey less than 6 hours so 32 although tiring, long and unpleasant a lot of the time it wasn't to challenging to us. In fact we even thought at the time that at home a 4 hour journey to Scotland or 8 hours to the southern coasts seems like a lifetim...

Its been over 2 weeks since I was in Varanasi but the scenes I witnessed there will stay with me forever. For the first time on this trip me and Kimberley had booked a hostel in advance and so when we arrived in Varanasi we had a Hostel rep waiting for us to take us straight there - so much less hassle and when you have someone else looking after the transport there is more opportunity to look around and take in the new city we found ourselves in.My first impres...

Hello If there is one building that will capture your heart and imagination its the Taj Mahal! When we arrived in Agra it was mid afternoon, we said a final farewell to our driver who had driven us every other day for the past week and wondered into the backpacker area. Agra is a mess, it is sooo dirty! Obviously all we saw was the cheap area to stay but considering this area is just on the outside wall of the Taj Mahal it couldn't be more the opposite. E...