The start of our European tour

Once we had made our decision to explore Europe, we needed to find a campervan, our preferred mode of travel. This turned out to be a fairly challenging undertaking at the last minute in summer but James was persistent and finally tracked one down. This large hurdle crossed, it was pretty straight forward organising ourselves. …

“A sabbatical from our sabbatical” – Part 2: France, Italy, Germany, France again and back to England

We’d stayed still for all of 12 hours so it was definitely time to move again and we were up with the sparrows on the Tuesday morning following the Bank holiday to fly to Nice and Caro’s parents’ house. This too was a pit-stop on the way to Italy for Caro’s brother’s wedding and on …

“A sabbatical from our sabbatical” – Part 1: England

We had had a truly incredible 7 months but we were ready for a break and, whilst we were a little saddened to think that part of our adventure was now over, we were very much looking forward to heading home to our family and friends, comfortable beds, reliable plumbing and food that we recognised. …

Drawing part one of the epic adventure to a close in Palolem, South Goa

We were both pretty travel weary by this time and, having looked at the public transport to get to Palolem, we decided that a taxi was definitely the easiest option and worth the small extra expensive for the ease and the comfort of air con. We had booked in to stay at Crystal Goa, a …

Visiting Sri Lanka: Some hints, tips and general observations

As with all the countries we have visited so far, we have pulled together some tit bits of information that we have picked up along the way, in the hope that they are helpful to others planning a trip to Sri Lanka. We have already outlined some of the downsides of travelling in Sri Lanka …

Failing to be hip in Anjuna, North Goa

Our flight from Kathmandu to Goa took us via Delhi and we spent 4 very unpleasant hours in Delhi airport which is, in our opinion, pretty average. On the plus side it does look like it has been built out of Daleks. The highlight, however, was the truly uninspiring food court where the sound system …

Kathmandu take two

We have had our fair share of challenging journeys but the bus journey from Bardia to Kathmandu was probably James’s least favourite of them all. There was the simple fact that it took 20 hours and that alone made it quite unappealing. This, combined with the extensive roadworks and appalling Nepali driving, made for a …