Mandolay Hotel Guildford
36 London Road Guildford, Surrey, England, GU1 2AF, United Kingdom
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So I'm home....
... goes but I am digressing again. So rewind a couple of days to around Sunday the 30th and me and Matt in Delhi.
So, due to our flight leaving painfully early from Thiruvanthapuram (yep googled that one aswell - pretty nifty thing google and an internet connection you don't have to pay by the minute for) - we left in the chucking down monsoon and made our way (via Bangalore) to Delhi and my good old hotel (Godwin). Our room was not so great this time around, due to (I think anyway) ...
Monday, April 25th
... they had one that was a giant cake of Buckingham Palace. After we left there we rode the bus for a few minutes then stopped off at another pub called the Hoop and Toy where I ordered four mini pies which were very interesting. They were about one inch in diameter and they each had a different filling like Shepherds Pie or Kidney and Beef. It was all very English with the mashed peas that they like to serve.
After we ...
Travels Part II
... working in the ape centre with the orangutans and chimpanzees, before leaving peninsular Malaysia and flying to Kuching in Borneo.
Whilst in Kuching, where we will spend 3 nights, we will visit a wildlife centre and an orangutan rehabilitation centre.
We then leave Kuching to travel by long boat with the Iban tribe into Batang Ai ...
To the other end of the world: A summary
... paragliding (Queenstown, NZ)
Best beach: Whitehaven Beach (Whitsunday Islands, Australia)
Best cities: Hanoi (Vietnam), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Melbourne (Australia)
Most scenic bus ride: Coromandel to Thames (NZ),
Most scenic train ride: Transalpine (Christchurch to Greymouth, NZ)
Hottest day: Ayers Rock region (Australia), 40 °C in the shade shortly ...
Two go adventuring in London...
... 8211; displays of herbs and their uses, and how they are prepared, scary looking medical implements from the 19th century, specimens of human body parts in jars... fascinating stuff (but not for the squeamish!). The old
operating theatre itself is set up just as it would have been in the mid-19t century – you can almost smell the blood and hear the patients' screams! It was very, very cool. Made us glad we live in the ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Mandolay



