I wonder where they are now....?

STATS: Day count=81; Current Illness count=0 (Both in full health at the moment); theft count=0; rip-off count=1; tourist screw-up count=1.7; Chris’ photo count=780; Emma’s photo count=31 (because they keep getting deleted – EM) I have discovered the meaning of life. We are walking food sources for mosquitoes. All this human diversification, different cultures and environments we create for ourselves is just to give mosquitoes different flavours to taste. We’ve been doped up on Larium for a few weeks now to avoid us catching malaria – it’s great – gives you really vivid dreams. Not so great if you’re prone to nightmares! We used to think beach holidays were all a bit rubbish. Couldn’t work out why people wanted to go on them. We now realise that we just hadn’t found the right beach to suit our particular tastes and exacting standards! We started off in Goa by spending a few days in a place called Panaji, which is small town away from the coast, on a river – a nice enough town to...

STATS: Day count=69; Current Illness count=1 (Chris just recovered from more major bout of “Delhi Belly”); theft count=0; rip-off count=1; tourist screw-up count=1.7; Chris’ photo count=717; Emma’s photo count=31 The trip from Bodhgaya to Varanasi was interesting. We had got ourselves onto a private bus (i.e. not a standard scheduled service) which ran overnight – from 8pm to 4:30am. When it hadn’t arrived by 9pm we were getting a little concerned – the travel agent was waiting with us, to his credit, though the bull**** he fed us about an argument between driver an agent at the town prior to ours where the bus started didn’t wash and our suspicions that the bus had actually broken down and they were busy phoning around to try to get another one sorted was proven to be probably correct when it arrived at 9:30pm, already packed with people (we had reserved seats, as had everyone else, but there were not enough to go around). So we’re pretty certain they piggy-backed on top of another ...

STATS: Day count=59; Current Illness count=1 (Chris recovering from minor bout of the expected “Delhi Belly”); theft count=0; rip-off count=0.8 ; tourist screw-up count=1.7; Chris’ photo count=618; Emma’s photo count=29 It certainly was goodbye to Thailand – India is very different. We spent four days in Kolkata (Calcutta) and were pretty glad to leave. We did try very hard to like the place – and did spend a nice final day there so left on a good note, but the place is busy, dirty, noisy, generally fairly unfriendly and quite stressful. To start with the worst points to try to end on a high – the traffic is deadly. I’ve not yet worked out if India drives on the left or the right since everyone drives wherever they wish. And they seem to take great pleasure in actually aiming for you as you cross the road. That would be fine, fun even, if it weren’t for the fact that everyone seems to have their thumb glued to the car/bike/rickshaw horn. The old adage that if you do something too ...