Well guys as the famous saying goes "All good things must come to an end" but we are not classing this as the end but more like a new beginning for us. After 18 aeroplanes, (2 left) 1 helicopter, 33 trains, 48 buses, 42 boats, 2 camels, 1 elephant, 1 bamboo raft, 1 tractor inner tube, 1 paraglider, 2 pairs of weary feet and thousands of tuk tuks and rickshaws we are on the verge of returning to the UK for the first time in 364 days. I know that from talking to p...

Hi Guys After the best nights' sleep we have had in almost one year we stirred and made our way for breakfast. We did have the option of getting breakfast in bed but I was scared if we did that I would never have got Mel up all day!!! The choice for breakfast was so immense they had 8 types of juice and 4 types of milk and you could have anything to eat from avocado to bacon and brie to strawberry cornflakes and about 10 types of doughnut, needless to say break...

Hi Guys Well time has finally caught up with us and we are into the last few days of what can only be described as an epic journey through 15 countries.The last few days in Port Blair were a little slow but now we are back on the Indian mainland in Chennai. When I say Chennai I mean the outskirts by the airport. If you have been following our blog you will know that we have checked ourselves into the 5 star Radisson for a couple of days of pure indulgence. When...

Namaste Well we were both looking forward to our First Class train that would take us to Chennai on the east coast of India but our excitement was short lived when we boarded the train, it didn't look like it had been cleaned since maybe 1976 and it was like a prison cell with 4 bunks in it. We set of from Mettupalyum and waited patiently for our bedding to arrive eventually I asked the attendant and he said that bedding was extra in 1st Class!!!!! We settled d...