Off we go to the Himalayas, Everest Base Camp (5364m) to be exact! After our bout of food poisoning we decided that the clean crisp mountain air would be the best medicine and it would have been stupid to have not gone during the 'perfect window' in terms of climate. (and because 'it's there, the biggest mountain in the world' - how could we not visit it?) This is a massive thing for us both seeing as we are feeling weak, we have done zilch training and are comp...

Here we are in Kathmandu, Nepal. There's not a lot to report apart from the fact that we thought we would only spend a night before going on a trek, but we were bedridden/room bound with food poisoning for a week. Kathmandu, while it is a shoppers/Trekkers paradise is a smog ridden city and the food is absolutely rubbish. We stayed in Thamel which is a 'traveler's ghetto,' packed with guest houses, restaurants, shops and bookstores catering for tourists from abr...

We were going to find out whether Delhi deserves to be called the capital of India. It's the 'new' capital of India, Kolkata used to be the capital but when India declared their independence from the Brits they shifted their capital. Our coach journey from Agra should have only taken 4 hours but it took 6 hours leaving us both frustrated when we arrived at a bus station outside of the city leaving us dealing with eager tuk tuk drivers which we could have done wi...

Off we went to the town of Agra, for the wondrous Taj Mahal. Our journey from Jaipur was trouble free however we soon found out that our top choice of hotels in Agra were fully booked. Had we been naive to think that hotels surrounding one of the worlds most beautiful building would be available. Our persistence did pay off and we found a room which was ok by our standards and it was only 50-100 metres away from the Taj's eastern gate. Right, the story behind t...

The capital of Rajasthan, Jaipur was our next destination. Jaipur is named after its founder, Jai Singh a former Maharaja who came to power at the age of 11. Jaipur is also known as the Pink City, surprisingly enough England had an influence on the name as the city was painted pink to welcome the then Prince of Wales, Edward VII in 1876. It was clear driving through that Jaipur has colourful and chaotic streets but it didn't look very pink. We arrived at the bus...