Koh Tao, Koh Phangnan and Koh Toa form an arpeggio of Islands off the East coast of Thailand. Koh Toa is the smallest, Northmost of these Islands. It is a strange mix of Thai and the West. It is many people's paridisiacal ideal. Regardless of whether I shared the view of paradise there was undeniably something incredible about a place where everyone is happy and doing what they want to do in a place that feels like a perpetual postcard. I stayed with a girl call...

Khaosan road. Tourist trail central. Incredibly busy yet strangely isolating it's the land of pros and cons. Big pros; the shopping is endless, the food is great, the whole place is about 10^10 cleaner than Paharganj, and you can get hour long foot massages for 200B (1GBP = 47Bhat). The cons? I literally shake in my bed in my cell of a room to the bass of the club beneath. Certain points on the road turn into zoos of completely trashed people of all nationalitie...

Rishikesh. (unchecked and unfinished, more to come) I went to Rishikesh thinking to stay four or maybe five days. Two weeks passed gracefully away in days full of spring and sun and still I wanted to stay really. The train from Varanasi to Rishikesh is 20 hours long and arrives at 4:30am in neighboring Haridwar.The Indian train ticket booking system automatically places foreigners together. I was next to a Dutch guy called Tim who had been two weeks in Va...

Always so little time to write. So to begin I suppose in Delhi. Crazy Delhi. We had the worst accommodation hunt I've yet experienced, arriving as a group from various flights. We got to Paharaganj (the cheap hotel area near New Delhi train station) after dark, at about 8:30. After looking around for rooms a little ourselves we found everything full or much a higher price than we had been told to expect. So we went with a young man on a cycle rikshaw who assured ...

We arrived in the Andamans after two days of travelling in which we took every form of transport. A six hour bus from Kumily to Alleppey, a fourteen hour train from Alleppey to Chennai, a fourty minute rickshaw ride to the airport, a twow hour flight to Port Blair, a 20 minute cab ride to the docks, and finally two and half hours on the boat to Havelock. We got there, were very indecisive about which room we wanted, finally chose, and collapsed. The main island...