After deciding that we wanted to escape Ahmedabad, we headed straight to the government bus stand and got on the next bus to Udaipur. The journey was just under 6 hours. So in a period of 24 hours we had travelled for approximately 17 hours! Needless to say our butts were sore! Udaipur is a city beside shimmering Lake Pichola, probably most famous for featuring in James Bond's Octop**** Helen immediately fell in love with Udaipur. We both took a tuk tuk ride fro...

On arrival at Ahmedabad after a 10.5 hour journey, both of us slept fairly well considering but we had crooked necks! Our first impressions of Ahmedabad....needless to say...was negative!  We decided to give Ahmedabad a chance seeing as we arrived at 7.30am so we checked into our hotel and went for some breakfast. After some online research and consultation with our lonely planet we decided that there was not enough to keep us in Ahmedabad.  We grabbed our ba...

As we made our way to our next destination, We spent the better part of 2 hours watching the locals of Mapusa celebrate Diwali by setting off fireworks in random places (such as in the middle of the road while cars were still moving, and even children were setting them off!) and fitting fairy lights everywhere. Has health and safety gone haywire in England or are we right to be cautious? This later caused a power cut, probably due to the overload of electrics and...

Hello from Goa, the Indian state of sun and beaches!!! Goa is well known for its silken sand, crystalline shores, cocohut culture and laidbackness. It's probably the only state in India everyone in England knows of! Our journey from Hampi to Goa on a sleeper bus was uneventful! It was a luxury having a bed but we felt every bump and turn. Nick found it a weird experience as we could not sit up and chat without being thrown about however we did manage to get a c...

Welcome to our blog from the Indian state of Karnataka. After a 13 hours train/bus journey from Fort Cochin, we arrived at Mysore near midnight. The journey itself went smoothly until we got stuck in bottleneck traffic up in the mountains. The scenery from the bus was absolutely breathtaking and we saw a few cheeky monkeys on the way! As we were on a government bus, the bus did not have windows and at times we were sharing the bus with far too many people. Helen ...