03 February 08 - 17:17Last Month - Month 9
As the server has been a bit ill of late, the link to the last video has dissapeared, so here it is again....
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17 January 08 - 01:47Last few months to reappear
Due to a server issue, the last few entries have not been posted, also the wedding site seems to have gone for a walk also.
However, the last 2 videos are still around - Month 9 to come....
Month 8 -
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18 February 07 - 13:53Cambodia & Vietnam
We have had an amazing time visiting Cambodia and Vietnam. It's been an incredible month and I'd thought I might share a little bit with you!
We came into Cambodia on what must be Asia's worst road. Cambodia has for many years been infamous for its roads - or the lack of them. Our map painted a lovely big red highway going from the North Cambodian/Thai border, right into Siam Reap (where all the temple action is). We passed through the Thai border, into the Cambodia border and our lovely road made of strong shiny new tarmac IMMEDIATELY gave way to sand and rocks. Not good.
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05 February 07 - 14:39New video for Month 7 now up!
As Fie had put up the month 7 pictures up ages ago now I thought I'd better sort the month 7 video out .....just as she then starts putting up the month 8 pics.......pest!
Here it is:
I hope you enjoy it - let me know what you think - "it's a pile of kak" for example. Turn the sound up loud!!
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25 January 07 - 12:44Thailand to Vietnam
Hi all,
Hit the delete button on your mail program if you don't want to hear me ramble on about life on the road in South East Asia - you must be sick of these updates.....sorry, whats that you say - "we want more updates of you having the time of your life whilst we work our arses off in this dreary-arsed country we live in"....oh, ok then.
Oh well, I'll carry on (sigh). Sorry - my lethargic manner is probably due to the early 6am start this morning to wearily mount a bus sans suspension to take us from Pnom Penh (Cambodia) to Ho Chi Himn (Vietnam). 9 hours drive - 300km - kak!
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09 January 07 - 15:35India to Nepal to Thailand
A fair bit of time has passed since the last update, so I thought I'd show my face for a bit. It's just that we've had a roller coaster of a ride from India to here (Thailand). We left India over a month ago now. I discovered in Lucknow that the back tyre was basically disintegrating, bits of rubber flaking off every hour to reveal the soft material underneath...no tyres available until we got to Bangkok, over 700 miles away (and a flight from kathmandu to bk). Luckily I bought a portable tyre inflator in India for such a disaster. Subsequently we took on a slow puncture and I would find myself putting air in the tyre every morning and afternoon. My bottom was puckering for that 700 mile journey - expecting a blow out at any moment. Spending 700 miles looking at the road for the slightest sign of glass or "spikey stuff" was not an experience I want to repeat, especially on Indian roads.
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07 December 06 - 15:28She said yes!!!
Lucky me, I got a yes to my proposal to marry Fie. I "did it" on a houseboat in the backwaters of peaceful Kerela. India is a hard place to find the peace and quiet for a marriage proposal - believe me, this was the quietest and best place for thousands of miles!
I've wanted to propose for very many months now, it kept welling up in me and I wanted to burst out "marry meeeeeeee" quite a few times, whether it was on the bike or lazing around in Goa. The traditionalist in me wanted to do it properly. So I did, on my knees and everthing except the rose in the mouth (no roses in Kerala).
We have finally made it to Nepal and are in the beautiful Chitwan National Park - "one of the most incredible reserves in Asia" so the book reads. Off for an misty early morning canoe ride followed up by a jungle trek, then elephant safari in the afternoon, then tomorrow we get to wash some baby elephants! Then a short ride to Kathmandu to arrange flights for us and the bike to Thailand. Eight days from now we will be in Bangkok!
I have to admit it's quite a relief to be in another country, in the last few days I felt India wearing us down a bit - probably due to the fact that we were just trying to cover many kilometers to get out of India before our visa ran out. Nepal's hotels feel cleaner and quite a lot less chaotic than the holes we had found in our last days in India. It's a shame that we only have 9 days here. It's a bit nippy at night and will get cooler as we ride towards Kathmandu - I cant tell you how much I am looking foward to the culinary delights that await us there.
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02 November 06 - 05:46Beaches and Yoga
Well since Srinigar we have skipped along way south. My god its taken bloody AGES to get to the beaches here in Soth Goa. Really it has. Don't think that we are ungrateful for this because we've seen quite a few things on the way down. We saw a tiger in Ranthambore National Park, sunrise over the Taj Mahal and have re-created the scenes from Octopussy in Udaipur (I've perfected Roger Moore's acting prowess - by moving my right eyebrow suggestively - Fie is most impressed) just to mention a few.
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