Just to let you know we're alive and kicking! We've had an adventurous couple of weeks! We went white water rafting in Nepal which was fantastic. Mostly quite peaceful drifting along the valleys taking in the breathtaking mountain views and quite rough at other parts. At one point the rappids were really strong and Ross was thrown over board! he managed to grab hold of a chinese guy sitting next to him taking him with him too. We pulled them both to safety ...

Varanassi Lassi's, comissions mission and gandering the Ghats Varanassi was stressful indded. Mostly so when the sun was 32 degrees and we were contantly bombarded with touts "Hell sir, hello, you from? you want? what do you want? anything? please!" Right from the minute we stepped off the train a tout followed us to breakfast, the tourist information, ticket booths, and finally to his rickshaw and into a hotel which bumped up the price to cover ...

Agra - eable Sitting on a roff in Agra, overlooking the Taj Mahal and endless rooftop scenes. A couple of young boys waving at us, a man squatting with a few goats, monkeys and their babies jumping from roof to roof. a woman shooing them away with a stick young men calling in flocks of pigeons, the sun setting over the Taj mahal, and a rainbow appears. Agra was another busy tout crazed place. Touts almost coming to blows ver whose rickshaw we went in. Wen...

Right here goes - Our first few weeks in India! The Adventure Begins Well we got off to a far from smoth start with Ross's train from Shrewsbury being delayed due to a fatality on the line, apareently smethik is a popular suicide spot, maybe not much of a surpise there then. Fo after waiting at the station for 2 hours without phones,having a mild panic attack and missing our train to London, Ross's train finally got in and we made our way to Heathrow, actualy ...

well this is going to be quite a stuggle as uploading everything takes flipping ages so sorryno pictures anyway all we've learned so far is... holy = 1.5 million faecal bacteria per 100ml of water the best way to transport a large number of chickens is to tie them to your bike commission is the mission each platform at an indian train station has it's own time zone cows get everywhere, but can't get in to golden bird school, no matter how hard they try ...