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 ...

Cue a very mad dash to Singapore Airport to fly to India. The reason behind our mad dash, Nick wanted to have a haircut. A Mohican to be exact! On our way back to the hostel to pick up our bags the heavens opened and the weather decided to be stormy as if Zeus was at war! This in turn meant we had to shower again and get changed again, Helen was grumpy as she was cold, wet and miserable so decided to fork out for some comfort. A taxi ride to the airport!!!! The f...

Finally, we are in a country which sort of resembles the Western World. Singapore, a country, an island, and capital city all rolled into one. After arriving from the Philippines, both of us were kind of relieved to be spending a couple of days in a country notorious for being clean and it's low crime rates before heading to India for 2 months. We headed to our hostel, Betel Box Backpackers which is in the Joo Chiat District. Our hostel is within a peranakan ter...