India is an immense country full of culture, beauty and diversity but also contradictions and extremes. In all honesty it took us a while to get used to the atmosphere and get over the culture shock. However, once we did we fell in love with the country, and its people – so much so...
Varanasi – Holy City on the River Ganges
In our opinion Varanasi, the holy city on the river Ganges is the city (that we visited) that most embodies India. It is pure colour, chaos, madness and tradition. Although we were expecting Varanasi to be far too chaotic and weird to be enjoyable, it actually turned out to be our favourite place in...
Dharamsala – A piece of Tibet in India
After exploring the golden triangle we needed a change of scenery. Alex has an interest in Buddhism and meditation and feels strongly that the Tibetan Buddhists were forced out of their homeland by the Chinese, so the next logical step was visit the Himalayan town of Dharamsala – A piece of Tibet in India....
This is not a vacation! Why long term travelling is no holiday!
So how’s your big holiday going? It must be great to have such a long holiday! You are so lucky that you can go on this long seemingly never-ending holiday? It must be great to be able to afford such an extravagant endeavour! How many times have we heard these phrases in our time...
What does the future hold for Cuba? Our Thoughts
What does the future hold for Cuba? The last two years have been a pivotal point in history for Cuba; President Obama has visited the country, the United States has decided to re-open the embassy in Havana after more than 54 years, and noises have been made about easing the long-standing trade embargo between...
Welcome to the jungle! The Peruvian Amazon.
Most of our readers will already know that we love Peru, and that’s partly because the country has a wealth of differing territory to explore. We have enjoyed cosmopolitan cities and colonial gems, coastal deserts and the Andean highlands. In order to complete the picture, we had to be brave, channel our inner Indiana...
The king of all mountains – Our tour of the mines of Potosí, Bolivia
Some time has elapsed since our tour of the mines of Potosí. What started out as a brief explanation of our curious experience has turned into something more in-depth. The more we wrote, the more we realised that we needed to write, in order to make sense in our minds of the history and...
Leaving work – How does it feel when the plans become real?
Friday 29th May was my last day at work! Excluding a short period between jobs, I have worked solidly since leaving university, so how does it feel to no longer have that thing that filled my life so entirely? To be honest it’s a bit early to say (it is only Tuesday), but it...
Uh oh, not a top 10…
AUTHOR: Jess Top 10 things that I am looking forward to the most: Not working, duh! Sleeeeeeeeeep Learning to live with less stuff Star gazing in the Atacama desert Eating ceviche in Lima The Bolivian salt flats Seeing a glacier Hanging out with the animals on the Galapagos islands Dragging Alex round Mayan ruins...
A pocket full of seaside
AUTHOR – Jess This is what I keep in my coat pocket – it’s a handful of shells that I picked up on a beach in Livorno, Italy at Christmas. Why am I showing you this? Don’t laugh at me! Purely because it makes me happy to reach into my pocket and day-dream of...