Arrived in Kandy at around 2pm just in time for the rain! I thought I’d try my hand at bartering with the tuk tuk drivers - turns out I’ve lost my touch and I’m very rusty. (It didn’t help that I had no clue about the currency conversion here either, lol!) My 50 rupees didn’t work and we had to pay 200 rupees, not best pleased even though thats around 90p (bloody expensive!) The hotel wasn’t far up the road from the train station, seemed super nice ...

The flight to Muscat was a quicky up and down, I had a window seat with the view of Dubai (the Burj al Arab, marina, Damac hills, etc.) Everything was again quick and easy, I waited for Ellie after security in transfers hoping she would find me easily. She came in five minutes after me; and of course I cried, she cried, we both cried and then we were all okay! (Still got that weird empty feeling like I don’t really know how to feel about anything that’s goin...

What a strange day for the emotions! They’ve been yo-yo’ing all week but today was a very strange and empty day for the old heart and brain, I must say! I’m not sure it’s really hit me yet that I’ve actually packed up all my belongings and left Dubai behind, the drink in the airport took the edge of things but it didn’t stop me from staring in to thin air thinking about ‘I don’t know what to think’ the entire time that I was there. Dubai is the...

The last two days have been so fantastic with everyone, I didn’t want it to end! Monday we got up and ate way to much at breakfast before going to Agra fort and getting a in-depth history tour of it. That’s not before mum discovered rig-amortise when passing cows in the street after her close encounter with a water buffalo in Goa and crossing the road, my god it was like tugging a dead weight across the road at the same time having the bones in your hand ...

We were travelling to meet mum and Aunty Lynne today! Me and Ross didn’t get in until 2.30am, pick up was at 5am... whoops! We slept late, I must have unconsciously turned my alarm off at 4.30 and we had a knock at the door at 5am - our driver! s***! I never got ready so fast! Quick pack and jumped on our big bus for just the four of us, the individual seats were lovely reclined so we all became unconscious very quickly again. Woke about 7.30am, dad had s...