When we were planning our route through India, we decided to spend the holiday week of Diwali in Delhi. We figured there’d be lots to see and do related to the holiday and we’d avoid any of the inconvenience we’d experienced by our lack of planning related to Carnival in Ecuador (we’d learned our lesson!).…
As our train rolled into Varanasi, we clearly heard a young voice pipe up “Excuse me. Excuse me!”. Hesitant that the sanctity of the train had been breached and that a young tout was already haranguing us, I took a sheepish glimpse towards the voice. “She wants to tell you something” said the mother of…
We arrived early, at four in the morning, in India. Despite the hour, the Chennai airport was bumping with activity. We followed the crowds to customs and whizzed through the queues. Given our lack of sleep from the day before, we decided to just go with the prepaid taxis rather than trying to figure out…
Sri Lanka is an incredibly beautiful country and we have especially loved hopping from beach to beach in the south. I know there is more to discover in Sri Lanka, national parks, UNESCO sites, temples and cultural gems. But we haven’t really done any of that. When the beaches look like this, it’s pretty hard…
The cheapest flight you can find is most likely not the most direct or comfortable way to travel. But for a year of traveling where every penny counts, many a time we have indeed chosen the least pricy way to get from point A to B. And this, dear friends, is how Ewan and I…
The quest for A.101, should you take it, involves many a challenge. It will be physical as you will embark on a ten kilometre trek. You will encounter hills and overpasses. It will be mental; you will come across omens. The heat and sun will be unrelenting. Traffic and decaying infrastructure will block your path.…
Whenever I sit down to write a blog post, I inevitably start with something along the lines of ‘I never thought I’d be in xyz…’. After a while I am sure it gets a little boring. And I should be smacked out of that mindset by now having been travelling for seven months. But we…
Budapest is truly a city of magnificent bridges and stunning buildings and monuments. We learned that pretty much everything is lit up at night and so decided to look into a night river tour that would give us a chance to see everything without having to walk all over. We found Budapest River Cruise and…
We had spent three weeks (!!) in Paris and had a grand old time. We hadn’t made any plans after Paris because we weren’t sure how easy or difficult the process of getting an India visa would be. Luckily we won the visa lottery and had our passports returned to us in just seven days.…
It feels like we have done an endless amount of posts on Paris, but here’s another photo-heavy one (we can’t help it – we love that city so much and we were there for three weeks!). This will be the last one for a while – I promise!