Hello from Laos!! Hope you're all well. I am very well, currently in Vientiane, Laos. I reached Thailand about 3 weeks ago and as soon as I arrived a knew it was a welcome change from India. I loved India to bits but Thailand is so much less intense and much easier to travel round. After all I had heard I was surprised to discover that Bangkok is actually really clean! I don't know if this is because I am using places such as Delhi and Mumbai as a basis of comp...

Hello from Laos!! Hope you're all well. I am very well, currently in Vientiane, Laos. I reached Thailand about 3 weeks ago and as soon as I arrived a knew it was a welcome change from India. I loved India to bits but Thailand is so much less intense and much easier to travel round. After all I had heard I was surprised to discover that Bangkok is actually really clean! I don't know if this is because I am using places such as Delhi and Mumbai as a basis of comp...

Morning! I only have a few hours in India remaining <sniff> and since its absolutely chucking it down outside, and there is thunder like I have never heard before, I thought would take some shelter and tell you about my last few experience of India. I said at the end of my last entry that a lot could happen in a few days and it has! 2 nights ago in Kerala I was strolling along the side of one of the canals in Alleppey when I bumped into a lovely smi...

Hellooo! Yes, sorry I am still alive. I have had a few e-mails of concern so its nice to know you care! I am currently in Kerala in Southern India. I have done a bit of tooing and froing since I last wrote. Turns out I got bored with Goa! Yeh the beaches were nice but that was it...there was nothing else to do, so once I'd lazed around for a few days I got bored and headed back to Mumbai to all the hustle and bustle of the frantic city. Its the end of the season ...

Hello again! Sorry it has been so long again since I was last in touch, I have come a long way since I last wrote. In fact all the way from Agra to Goa which is 1709 km as the crow flies but I have gone round the houses. The long and short of it is that I have seen many forts, palaces and temples and am now officially forted, palaced and templed out! I will not bore you with all the details; I will just give you the highlights.Firstly, in Jaisalmer we visited an ...