Hokey Dokey, here I am back in New Delhi and the famous Pahar Ganj, for what is my final Indian blog, and what a welcome return it was. It felt so nice to be back in familiar surroundings and know my way around it made for a very relaxing and easy going couple of days (who would of thought I would be saying that about the infamous Pahar Ganj just a couple months ago when I departed the UK!!!!!). I had a relaxing day today just walking streets which were all bei...

Back to India and the end of my bus ordels not nearly to soon either. Bus from Neapl to border took about 5 hours and the first 4 were fairly uneventful and I thought how nice and tranquil and what a change this had made to preivous journeys.Oh yes spoken to soon, with an hour to go the driver departed the vehicle and a guy sat at front of bus who I had assumed was just another passenger took over. This guy had shoulder length hair and some kind if Megadeath T-sh...

After a long night on yet another sleeper train myself and Jules arrived in Siliguri where we had to pick up a shared jeep for the remaining 3 hour journey up to the hillstation which is Darjeeling. Got a seat each in another cramped vehicle and set off on the journey. About 30 mins into this journey the jeep got a puncture and we had to sop while driver changed the wheel. I saw the one he took off and the tyre was bald, it looked like a formula one super slick t...

Well train journey to Kolkata was a strange one as on train there was only me and one other bloke in the full set of 8 berths I was sat in. This is unheard of on these trains in an overnight train in this class. Got chatting to this fella and he told me to not chat to people at some of stations on way through as some very dangerous people around here, (thanks pal, Im going to sleep well tonight now!!). As it happened I did get a good few hours kip as not too many...

Received phone call from John at Midnight on Thursday night and turns out he had sent me an e-mail which I had not checked confirming he had added me to the room at his hotel...... Hyatt Regency of all places at 200pounds a night and I had missed e-mail so was in a 3pound a night place feeling ill. Doh! Arranged to meet John at Hyatt in morning for breakfast and could not wait to get there and have some 'Proper' breakfast (non spicy western breakfast was being cr...