After feeling a little disappointed with Jaipur we made the decision to move on to Pushkar - a 6 hour bus journey to the East. Our first exeprience of an India bus journey, we realised that stops were frequent, during which street vendors would try and sell you their products through the open bus windows (drive through shopping) - we almost drove off without one man collecting his order of bananas!! We had begun our journey with Julie, a girl from Holland that we...

Escaping Delhi by train Escaping Delhi we made our way to Old Delhi train station to board our first Indian train to Jaipur. The station itself was pretty daunting, the first task was to actually find out which platform the train was to arrive at. After looking at all of the arrival boards we eventually found it scribbled on a random whiteboard (platform 5...wherever that was). On getting to the platform it dawned on us that we were the only Westerners and we st...

Emirates flights were very impressive, probably the hardest part was getting through all the security checks in Heathrow! Trevor had a large amount of electrical items in his bag and had to have it all emptied and searched. This proved slightly embarrassing when a small plastic dinsosaur called 'Brian' was taken out of his bag, which we then had to try and explain in an embarrassed fluster. Note - 100 rupees to 1GBP. Day 1: We were thrown right into the thick ...

Qutting our jobs and saving all our money, we decided to book a dream trip to travel around the world. We both have a passion for travelling and seeing different countries and cultures. Since Trevor returned from the standard RTW trip 8 years ago, and Sophie from South-East Asia 2 years ago, we have both longed to fulfill our travel bugs and take on something more challenging this time around, and now we're doing it together. This could be make or break....