Can you believe we´re in our final destination ????????? We left England nine months ago on what can only be described as the best honeymoon ever, …

It´s a bit of a long haul back down here from Mancora, we were told maybe 17 hours, but as experienced South American high class pleasure seekers, w…

The rock and roll lifestyle is definately back again and look ........and so is the apostrophe´.....HONK HONK...PARP PARP.......HONK HONK.....PARP P…

What an introduction to buses in South America for Nick !!!! It all started so well, tortilla wraps for breakfast and then a quick walk to…

This is one amazing place !!!! On every side of the town is a mountain it´s incredible and the town is really friendly too. The trip down from…

Well, we´re a bit tired now after todays wander about the city. It took us a while to negotiate the cities buses,absolutely ages infact, why ex…

First impressions of Equador....nice, first impressions of Euadorian bus conductors / entertainment jonnies........what a bunch of knobs....sorry mis…

GUESS WHAT ?????????????????? We were lying on the beach yeaterday when we were hit by a sudden hazy memory. Through the alcohol induced haze of …

It{s May and we{ve been away for over 8 months now ( and somebody{s nicked the damn apostrophe again !!!! ) and it had to happen sooner or later but …

They say this place is the poor mans Galapagos, well all I can say is that I'm glad we're nearing the end of our trip and so are well and truly ski…

One day in and I can safely say we're gonna like Peru a whole heap more than Bolivia.....sorry Jose!!!!!!!It may have taken what seemed like …

Well that´s it for Bolivia, and fortunately we´ve got a full complement of keys on the keyboard now that we´ve reached the Peru border !!! Maybe t…

We,ve just got back from one of the most amazing days we,ve had whilst we,ve been away, it,s been incredible !!!!! Plus someone,s nicked the bloody a…

Our longest bus journey of the trip finally came to an end here after 31 hours.......we did think about crossing the border into Bolivia but decided …

We came, we saw, we left ........ but what we saw from the bus station was good !!!!! Half an hour is all we had after our 23 hr journey from Puerto…

How can you describe this ?????????????????????   Look up awesome, awe inspiring and any other words with awe in them ( apart from awful bu…

What an amazing place Iguazu Falls is. It might have taken twelve hours to get here on a really uncomfortable bus but we,ll let you off Iguazu be…

Well this is the second time in the last couple of days we,ve been here ( bugger that old apostrophe is playing up again.....just when you think yo…

Old blue eyes had it mostly right about  life but not mentioning those regrets???? I ´m not so sure.... If only we had more money, if only we…

Not long ago we were convicted Smugglers in Chile now we´ve added to our list of transgressions ( word of the day toilet paper....does wonders for t…

What a nightmare. So our bus was leaving the terminal 3 km up the road at 6 am, so what time should we get up???????????? 4.30 seems a bit early, 5 m…

So, it's a good job that the archatecture ( that really doesn't look right, but oh well I'm too old for spelling bees anyway !!!! ) of this city isn'…

Buenos Aires, we´re going to miss you!!! It seems like we´ve been here for ages, but it´s only been a couple of days and we´ve loved every minute…

Well what can we say about Barriloche???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? We were there for about 13 hours and we slept …

We were told we were heading for a resort, what we didn´t realise was that it was a ski ing and mad bastad trekking kind of resort........plus it wa…

So the longest day in the world for us just happens to fall on April Fools Day it´s quite apt that it´s today we´ve chosen to join Howard Marks an…

Day 6 and we drove back into Rotorua to go to Thermal Wonderland,  which is an amazing place full of the results of volcanic activity, first we …

We have spent the last couple of days in and around Rotorua and Taupo and it{s been another great few days. We,ve eaten some amazing steaks and seen …

We had a bit of an easy day on day 2 , Bert was a little tired after day 1{s excitement so we let him off easy with only 69 km, mostly up and down mo…

What an amazing time we had in New Zealand, we both loved every minute of it and simply had the best time ever!!! We had a great flight fom Fiji to …

Two nights in Nadi and we were definately ready for the off again,...................... bula dancing yes please, ..........................cann…

It was an early start and we were well up for it, we're going to the islands, get in!!!! At the jetty we had a sudden horror image of runn…

What a first day here in Fiji, we've had it all : blazing sunshine, clouds, a tropical storm, smiles ....and warnings from the police as they handcuf…

Wow, what a time we've had here, I can't believe we've only been here four nights!!!! It all started on the plane, we managed to move seats right to…

Day 4 and we're on our way to the Pinnacles, Karens in the driving seat and before long we're in Cerventes, booked into a caravan park and had a good…

I forgot to say in the last blog we'd arranged a car for our road trip down south to Maggie's Riviera with a couple of stops along the way. It's a re…

We've been in Oz for a couple of days now and we're having an absolute ball!!!! The flight was fantastic, I watched the wrestler, Grand designs and R…

Two countries and three airports in the same day and it all went smoothly amazingly!!! First off it was to Langkawi first thing in the morning for th…

This is getting like second nature now, speedboat to Langkawi, jump off at the pier and into a cab then to Gecko lodge and the family room at the bea…

Lipe , Lipe Lipe, was is their to be said that I haven't said before????? I haven't got the theasaurus with me and so have run out of superlatives fo…

Well that was an experience not to be repeated too often, I'm reminded why we let the train take the strain. It was comfy enough but with the Chronic…

What a hectic time we've had here. In and out in just over three days Crow and Pops don't know whats hit them!!!!!God Bangkok is busy and humid as he…

Yes, i know to some it may seem a bit of a cop out, running back to the good life in KL instead of roughing it with our turtles on our backs , lookin…

We never really got the chance to explore last time we were here so now we're going to have a good look around, you never know we may even venture in…

I first came here ten years ago, and I don't want to sound like one of those boring old farts who go on about how things have changed, but humour me …

What a journey.......9 and a half hours, smooth enough but about 4 hours too long!!!!!! Not sure how we're going to cope with South America. It was …

HCMC????...................... it's a bit crazy really !!~!! After a long old bus journey we arrived here around 4 and spent a good half hour tryng …

We're back and it feels like we've never been away, Adventure Rat, the amazing haggling one, managed to knock our room rate down again at the lakesid…

The last four days have been spent doing nothing much but lying on our backs soaking up Cambodia's sun and gradually shrinking those white patch…

We got the bus here for 6 whole dollars each, not bad for a 6 hour Karaoke frenzy from one end of the country to the other!!!! We decided to stay on…

Siem Reap is just the coolest place. Everyone is so laid back and friendly and just smiling all the time. The airport was just so pretty ( how gay do…

No time to rest once we're back in the big bad city of KL, it's Dan and Jenna's last night so it's a mad dash back to base in a taxi from the airport…

The trip over here was a short one, only an hour of waiting at immigration, followed by an hour waiting for some guy who had lost his shoes, followed…

 We've had some fun since the last blog!!! There's been drunken nights, beating up bathrooms, snorkelling trips to dream for, crazy french dude…

We settled back into life in KL like we'd never been away, shopping, eating, drinking, swimming in the pool and sleeping, it's all so very …

This is absolute paradise, you can keep your samui's, langkawi's and penang's, we don't want them!!!! No where is going to beat the sheer majesty and…

So Bangkok.....let battle commence, it's Ria against the stall holders and shopkeepers of Thailand, I pity them !!!!! Let the blood letting begin!!! …

What a week we've had in KL. A real holiday in Luxury. Dave and Christy's apartment is amazing, our en suite bathroom is almost the size of the rooms…

The flight was fantastic, loads of room, comfy seats, individual tv's and scrummy food - sweet and sour chicken, stirfried veg and red wine - the fir…

Well it's a bit more lively here, with bars and restaurants lining the beach but there's still not really that many people around. We found a great p…

  After three months in Windy we're off. We've travelled right the way around the country on trains, buses, taxis, tuk tuks, boats and foot ,in…

Well we're here and as promised there is next to nothing here!!! Didn't quite expect it to be quite this empty a place, it's all big fancy places, no…

Wow, wow  and again wow, what an incredible market...and thats from someone who would willingly poke himself in the eye repeatedly rather t…

This is where we would like to live in India!!! Darjeeling is still my fave place but there wasn't a beach and to be honest it was bloody cold all t…

So we arrived here in Goa, the supposed stomping ( or should that be smoking ) ground of the hippies in India and what did we find....not one, n…

Today brings us to Om beach, named after either, 1. the shape of the bay or 2. the first sound out of the discoverers mouth when asked to name it, no…

Tonight we are staying in an old Mahoraja's( the prince, king bloke, not sure how he spells his name!!!) palace, we've had a really hard days travell…

PARP PARP HONK HONK POOP POOP AND ALL THAT JIZZ!!! yEAH YEAH YEAH BABY!!! So we made it to Thrissur by about half seven and after finding a new home,…

Up early again, and we've got a hard core day ahead, not sure where it'll end or where we're going to stay tonight, we'll have to wait and see!!!! F…

We left Varkala this morning at 7, paid the bill, argued about it as they suddenly decided to try and stich us up by upping the price 50 rupees a day…

Varkala has been a fantastic place to stay, a real beach paradise, ..I know I keep saying that but the beaches just keep getting better!!! Thinking b…

We love Kanyakamari, it's just so weird!!! Theres no other way of describing it here. Think of Brighton with it's seemingly out of place architecture…

After a scenic and again surprisingly comfy 3 and a half hour bus trip, this time with no bus surfing involved ( Forgot to mention that on the last&n…

Trichy....not really where we were aiming for but a pretty nice place once you get used to being in another city and all that goes with it. Indian ci…

Yes, I know it's difficult to believe and in a way it seems like the end of an era but the quest has reached a conclusion, today at a little after 12…

What a place Mama is, it's such alaid back relaxed place, we thought Puri was chiiled but this place makes it look positively throbbing!!! Since we h…

We're writing this from the first stop on our multi leg journey to Mamallapuran. We left Puri this morning at 6:30 with both sadness and excitem…

Puri is a fantastic place, we've really found somewhere we can relax. The train journey was a sinch at 9 hours, and overnight so we slept the whole w…

This place is a welcome relief in Calcutta. Where all the other mid range hotels are dirty and grimy, this place sparkles, where the other hotels sta…

The night train was great- no dead people, no one staring and we took a packed dinner of cuzza, dal and chapati and scoffed it on our bed!!!So when w…

Another day, another city and today we've woken up in Siliguri. After recharging on voddie and cuzza in Sikkim we're again up for what India can chuc…

We jumped another share jeep for the 4 hour journey purely to see the scenery, we had heard it was amazing and so we got the permit needed to visit a…

Darjeeling is the nicest , most relaxed city we have visited so far on our trip, it's amazing. After we arrived at NJP station and recovered from de…

So what can happen in 27 hours? You can catch a train from Delhi to Darjeeling, You can play nine football matches, You can fly from England to In…

After speaking to a couple of Agra veterans, we decided the Taj and gardens are all it has to offer so after photos at sun rise we pack up and off we…

4 hours on the train - easy !! Woop woop , parp parp!!! We are off to visit the biggest monument to love in the world yet you find it surrounde…

Hard core day. Lots to do.. Train station to book tickets to Agra - DONE To the Raj Mahal, Indias most famous cinema to book tickets for the evenin…

My god, where have we arrived? We got off the train into a seathing mass of screaming taxi/tuk-tuk/rickshaw drivers all clamouring for our attention …

We're on the night train to Jaipur , no other travellers on the station and everyone is staring ( have we got extra arms...surely they have seen two …

Dirt, dirt and more dirt......but we've found a clean place to stay , even if it is pretty expensive at 1950 rupees ( aparently the going rate in Mum…

And we're off..........and what a trip!!! So there we are getting comfy in our economy seats when along comes the chief steward and wants a word... …

We are pissing our pants with excitement about the start of our fab adventure!!!  Packing our bags...with nothing because Rich won't let me take…