Euro Millenium Folkestone

... ribs) where there was a rather amusing urinal (see picture).

We left Calais and headed for a campsite which wasn’t the greatest and didn’t have very nice bathroom facilities but at least it was a gorgeous night. We spent an hour or so with our heads sticking out of the van and enjoying the stars. Love those nights! The next day we made our way to Boulogne to see the sights (see next ...

... least that's how I like the think of him. Some of you may have read about this gentleman in my Facebook postings. I asked him if he knew when Greenpeace intended to come down. He shrugged and said they hadn't yet mentioned that. He went on to cheerfully talk about how their demonstrations worked and how they had scaled the walls. A bicyclist happened by, laughed, and asked how the demonstrators had ...

... at the moment so i won't go wake him up to write anything! We hope to update this blog as often as we can, but just don't know how often that will be yet, but please don't worry if we don't update in a while, it just means we are out on safari in the middle of nowhere!

Next job....getting on a plane! Starting to get a bit nervous....should be alright after take-off though (fingers crossed).

Will miss you all. xxxxxxxxxx

... bus from Satara to Panaji
Night on bus

Tues 29:
Arrive in Panaji at about 8am
Take bus to Calangute – 45 mins
Night in Calangute/ Candolim

Wed 30th:
Visit Calangute
Depart for Madgaon
Depart from Madgaon to Jog falls OR
Depart from Madgaon to Ernakulam (Train – 14hrs)
Night on train/bus

Thurs 1st Oct:
Visit Backwaters - Allepey
Depart for Coimbatore (Train – 8-9 hours) bus?
Night in Coimbatore ...

... br>There’s an excellent take in the movie ‘Swades’ where Mohan (Shah Rukh)
is on a local train that comes to a halt in some village in Northern
India. On the platform, there’s a little boy who’s running and
screaming, ‘water for twenty five paise’! Up until then, Mohan hadn’t
touched anything but bottled mineral water but for some reason he buys
the ...

... to cook 560 odd recipes from Julias book in 1 year(365 days)
and will blog about her progress.

I've always thought about blogging and sharing my experiences with
people out there but have never got round to it. This movie has somehow
convinced me to start one! (and you too Vishal!!) and what more than to start blogging about
my journey to India!(Exactly 2 weeks from now, I'll be flying out to
Mumbai!...for the very first time!)

... we have lost all will to live. On. Off. On. Off. Clutch – shift down – engine, oontact, panic gas, repeat. I have had this problem before with the van, when carrying a load of 3 and a half tonnes of grapes from moldova back to Gyergyo. Same stress, different time.
It turned out eventually that two of the five injectors died. Just as then, I have swapped with jon, and proceeeded to find the nearest service station, to see if we could still get the van fixed and make ...

... 1 litre every 40 seconds and we took almost 50 litres. 30 minutes I had my finger presses to that damn "fill" button! So we are on this ferry, now heading back to Dover for reasons as yet unknown!!


- Injuries

It turns out we damaged an crew member on our departure so return to drop him off with A&E!
On our way again, 45 mins late

... pronounced Fanet. ???????? Now we come to `chip´ vs. `crisp´ vs. `fry´. So a chip is a fry, a crisp is a chip and a fry is, well, I don´t think they use fry. And last but not least... for some reason `the´ is left out of the sentence, `He was taken to the hospital.´ It is said, `He was taken to hospital.´ Or, `She had the baby in hospital.´ Why??? Shouldn´t there be a `the´ in there? For whatever reason this stands out ...

... logistical view it's probably easier and cheaper to organise going West to East. You could do it very economically going East to West if you tied yourself down to a schedule a long way in advance and/or took the chance of cutting corners with your visas but that's probably a decision to make based on the political climate at the time. I don't for a minute regret not stopping to break the Trans-Siberian trip. The experience of being on ...