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... packed like sardines whilst smelling someone elses perspiration for the whole journey. It is fun and safe - just keep an eye on your wallet... It was great to see the Taj Hotel coming back together after the terrorist attacks exactly one year ago... it is almost as great as the gateway to |ndia across the road - a beautiful landmark and soon to be back to its former glory...

Varanasi was one of those places I had always wanted to see and visit. I had heard so much about it long ...

... the gorge up the gorge” debacle followed by kilometres of what, bog? on top of a mountain?!! where the hell were we?!! Also, damn the reservoir where, having run out of water, Ryan requested that I wade in and try and get some water for boiling. Cold! Muddy! Undrinkable! Squidgy!

... raining still!

It has been a bit of a blur today, as well as the Royal Marsden we have been to Addenbrookes in Cambridge, THe Queen Elizabeth in Birmingham and now I am sitting in a cosy front room in Sheffield with a real fire!
I am excited about tomorrow as we will be going back to my home town of Newcastle. Yippee!!
I have taken a few pictures of the day.

Last brief entry, just to say we are safely back home, arriving yesterday with Sue picking us up at Manchester airport.

We've had a fantastic trip - very memorable! Thank you for following our trip. Hope it hasn't been boring, certainly hasn't for us.

... the CHANGE. I don't particularly like change, but I like to take myself out of my comfort zone sometimes and see what I can handle. Keep challenging myself.

Keeping this short, otherwise it will get VERY boring. More time for fun stories and escapades then! xox

... people not intervening. We played pool and drank lots of water, lots of the time hanging out with the British folk who had to delay their drive back to England because they were still drunk the next morning into the afternoon. The night was laid back as the hostel cooked us as many sausages as we could eat and I met more people in the hostel with good conversation and I got to practice my Spanish with a nice architecture student from Barcelona.

Next stop Berlin... see you soon.

127 miles, 91 locks and one sore **** - my next adventure is a weekend bike ride along the world famous Leeds to Liverpool Canal. It is planned for a weekend in Spring/Summer and I'm in the process of mustering a few compadres to drag along. The plan is pretty rough at the moment, I have a map, a bike and some padded underpants. My thinking is, to get a van to drop us off in Leeds and then head home to Liverpool (as its more downhill in ...

... much stuff and a spell of living out of a rucksack for almost a year will be good therapy (maybe Virg will return wanting a smaller wardrobe!) It would be a shame to travel the world only to spend all our time internet cafes struggling with technoology and alien keyboard layouts whilst trying to learn to use the blog. So this is a practice. We've even managed to upload some pics and link to them from different places (hopefully). It has ...

... ethnic groups and gen**ally just messing up what in African t**ms was a p**fectly good working system before. Apparent advantages of colonisation such as roads, railways, and public administration etc w**e not the result of colonial benevolence, but w**e in fact all paid for by the Africans themselves through the imposition of heavy poll tax on all men and compulsorary corvée labour. Public s**vices for Africans, such as schools, hospitals and the like, received little to no ...

... badly, lose all your fluids, don't take any electrolytes and fluids, miss out on the IV drip, fall into a coma - you are about to die. Part I for females The trick to peeing at the side of the road is as follows - never pee on the tarmac, too much splash back, or any hard surface for that matter, go off the road towards the bush, but make some noise whilst stamping your feet, etc. This is to scare off any snakes nearby. Try not to pee under overhanging bushes, too ...