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Nasik, Maharashtra, India

what can i say people where literally stopping us in the street mand asking us loads of questions we found a little intimadating at first but everyone was just curios as to why on earth there was two white people walking around town. the kids couldnt get over it. our host hadnt had any white guests in two years he said, he even remembered they where french... we got on some random bus that we kinda figured through not knowing any hindi and broken english that was going saomewhere of interest. man oh man this was quite posibly the greatist travel experince of my life. we where in the hills at one of the most holyist sites in india ( so holy we were'nt aloud in ) we looked through the gate and it was class. but the towns folk hill tribes where uterly stuned that we where there, we did go to one temple that had a 20 foot deep walk way to submerged caves inside ( bloody hot ). but by passing through and the aid of a little donation we are now free from sin to commit once more ......

going to visit the ellora cave complex tommorrow should be great, it only took about 500 years to make ( hope they put the kettle on ) there will be loads of pics to come its only that these bloody pc's crash everytime i double click a raw file EEERRRGHGHHH bloody pc evil pc .....
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Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India

first night was a crazy intro to india as we hadnt slept in two days. it was hot not to hot but getting worse by the min thanks to the gear i was carrying. we had booked a room from home something i never or will again. it was in davihali (spelt very incorrect) put it this way it the biggest slum in asia!!! we woke to the biggest most crazyist, caios i have ever experienced... there are 40,000 black cabs and 25,000 autoricksaws in mumbai and i swear half of them where fighting to get around the one corner where me n clare where trying to stay alive because crossing was a night mare. then we got in a the train station ( keeping it real ) everyone thought we where mad, the que for the tickets was 40 min, by whick time clare almost fainted because of the heat and the lack of water ( it really creeps up oul deihydration ). so we moved gaff to the travelers quarter, every city has one. long story shourt we where in mumbai for two days it was crap the end....
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Bahrain, Bahrain

bahrain was a pain, 12 hours man i hate airports. some ass rammeed the plane with his taxi. to cap it all off we couldnt eat as it's ramadan and their quite strick on that...
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London, United Kingdom

im all packed and ready to go. i remember when i first when off on my travels, my bag weighed 27 kg.!!! now ive got it down to an art form my bag is a mear 7.5 kg. although saying that, my camera gear does come in at wopping 9.8 kg. you can tell what is the priority is, lol.

clothes: 4 t-shirts, 4 pants, 2 shorts, 2 socks, 1 flip flops, and 1 pair of shoes not much really,
cameras: 2 nikon d-slr's, 5 lenses, 1 flash gun, 3 spare bats for cameras, 3 set of 4 aa bats for flash gun, rechargers for all those bats, 20gb ( ish ) of flash memory, 2 250 gb hard drives to back that up, cleaning fluid for senor and more for lens, swabs, two low pro bags, no tri pod wouldnt bother, two card readers, model releases and my eye's... they are the ones that take the photo's after all, lol....

ill be flying tommorow so it'll be two days until i update this blog stay with us and there'll be photo's to match

gar and clare.
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