I have devoured pinapple curry! The food has been amazing in Kerala but I think we saved the best till last! For the last two nights we've been staying in Shravan Greens a small resort in the middle of the backwaters near Kochi with the most amazing cook. We were literally stuffed by the lovely friendly cook Chichi (translated as elder sister) and our wonderful host Indu. After every meal we cried I can't possibly fit in another meal today but of course we kept c...

I've seen wild elephants!! :-) We are now in India (after over 20 hours of travelling) and on arriving in Kerala we hot footed it up to the wildlife sanctuary in Wayanad where visitors are almost guaranteed to see wild elephants. On our first jeep safari at 7am we saw a family of elepahnts-ladies with one baby munching away and enjoying their breakfast and later on we saw four male elphants! We didn't see anymore on ouir second safari but did see deer, wild peaco...

It has been such a long time since i"ve had the chance to blog. Finally, found some time to sit in an inet cafe and update the blog with our adventrues. We are currently in Wanaka which is a lovely town (nice shops!) by Lake Wanaka and surrounded by mountains and snowy peaks (I keep getting very excited by the snowy peaks which look just like they do on a toblerone wrapper!). We went on an amzing 3 hr walk up a small mountain yesterday and had a phenomenal v...

I have just stroked a Koala! We are in Rockhampton-beef centre of Australia and went to their little zoo in the Botanical Gardens. We saw kangaroos, wallabies, lizards, a croc , sleeping wombats and all manner of birds (like these lorikeets) too. Before that the only Aussie animals we seem to have been able to spot are dead ones by the side of the road so it was lovely to see some live ones! We are off for steak tonight and are staying in a caravan park by the ri...

It"s been a bit of a while since i"ve been able to update and I've got 10mins before we go off to find a nice campsite by a beach! Well we've been in Oz about a week. We had two lovely days in Sydney-on the first afternoon we met two curaotr friends of mine from the Art gallery of New South Wakes and they took us for a lovely steak lunch so we got straight onto the Australian beef. One our second day in Sydney we went for a mammoth walk from bondi beach...