Mountain of a Thousand Images After a serious outbreak of food poisoning in Bali I managed to lift my head out of the loo for long enough to fly with the dubious 'Lion Air'...
Still Monkeying Around We've hung up our speedos, thrown away our bucket and spades and taken a bus into the interior of Bali. The pace of life in Kuta with all...
M Spa: Caines present to me! Bali is tres famous for its swanky Spas of abundant joy so Caine booked me into the one pictured above for my 27th Birthday. It was even...
"Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty, you're listening to the boy from the big bad city, this is jam hot" I have finally left the Big Bad City of Bombay and the journey...
The coincidence of Hindu and Muslim festivals with the flood of charter planes from Goa jammed the transport and telephones of Goa making it both desirable and impossible to...
Huge Congratulations! While I was sunning myself in the Ghanaian town of Cape Coast many moons ago and scorching myself in Ouagadougou, Caine was working hard for his...
Although we've travelled far and wide by this point our fellow Brits have been a pretty rare encounter and it would be easy to think Israel was the most populous country on...
OK, so it wasn't quite this bad Mary! This morning I (Nathaniel) was involved in a car crash, I knew it would happen one day because the taxi drivers belt...
Jeanette and Dougy The longer I stayed in Bombay the more it reminded me of London. The British had certainly designed it that way and had built the buildings they...
My taxi, with the yellow roof! I am now all alone in this modern day Pompeii 'Bombay ' for a month. Caine has flown to the paradise like beaches of Goa...
Whilst leapfrogging down the streets of Bombay me, myself and Caine were approached by a casting agent for Bollywood. He asked us if we'd like to be extras for...
London or Bombay? Varanasi was hell and there was nothing redeeming about it. The roads are full of cars, cows, people begging, cycle rickshaws, and motorised...
La Guru With Buddah as our guide we flew in a rather dubious looking propellor plane over the mountains to the border with India. The plane was very late and not...
Having a laugh in the blood bath! I finally escaped the dirty touristic streets of Thamel and explored Dashinkali with my new Nepalise friend Dev. He...
So the hippies have left Kathmandu but their trail is still just about visible in the ethnic clothes, endless offers of drugs and poor Western souls incarcerated in the...
Long Way Down! My Dad prepared me well for the journey from Everest Base Camp to Kathmandu but I think that Mary and Pete (Caines Ma and Pa) must be great drivers...
After what seemed like an interminable search for a Land Cruiser willing to take us to Everest we ended up where we had started at the Tensing Hotel. We joined up with...
China's grip on Tibet from the visitor's point of view appears in the form of a complex set of permits. In case you're planning a visit, this is what...
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima We have now escaped the land of much troubles. It seems that the Chinese like us so much that they don't want us to leave, or perhaps that they...
For some reason SIM cards bought in yunnan cannot be topped up in Tibet so we have a new number. Calling from the UK it's 00 86 13648909491. Or, for cheapskates call...
Potala Palace, Lhasa I've often been wrestled out of London bookshops for treating it like a library whilst flicking through picture books of Tibet. The pictures...