A catch up!

Okay okay. So this little blog sadly died along with the laptop but here's a little update incase you were wondering was ive been getting up to...

Oh, and there won't be any photos either :(
I don't know if the computers we've been using the past 3 weeks could handle uploading... they are so old, half of them don't even have USB connections!! It's going to be a long and tedious job when we get home to upload and back up all the photos. There are thousands of them! oops...
Anyway, here we go...

Thailand: Lots of gorgeous temples, haggling at Kao San road and MBK, bungalows by the beach, full moon party, cocktails at sunset, escaping the monsoons.

Cambodia: Cycling the temples of Ankor Wat, learning about the khmer rouge, nightly electric storms.

Vietnam: amazing food, Halong Bay and Monkey Island, long weather delays, homestay in Sapa, amazing Hanoi and it's 1000th year birthday

Laos: we decided to give it a miss cause of all the weather delays we were experiencing :( next time

Singapore: museum of toys, awesome Zoo, impressive architecture and amazing shopping. If only we had a credit card to play with...

Sooooo, our first few weeks in India we explored Mumbai where we tried to get used to the constant staring and gawking, dove right into trying out the beautiful food, battled the heat in full length clothing and wandered the sights. While we took photos of landmarks and cows strolling down main street, the local took photos of us! We did some serious relaxation at one of the quieter beaches in Goa. Cows and goats joined us on the beach and we cleared out the mini bar in our guesthouse! We visited some gorgeous ruins in a tiny village called Hampi. The place was full of tourists but it was still pretty amazing. A rickshaw driver drove us around all the ruins and we took a billion photos. We watched snake charmers, monkey fight over bananas, cows dressed up and the locals let tea lights float down the river on the first night of the full moon. And now we are back to relaxing on a beach down south in a region called Kerala. Things are moving a lot slower than the past seven months, our money is finally going somewhere and we have loads of time.

And seeing as life is so nice and relaxed down here, the plan is to spend the next four or five weeks travelling around the southern part of India and sampling some of the things that the locals are good at. Yoga, massage and food are all on the list. There is so much fish down here even Brian has finally been converted to a fish eater! Big news really, if you know him. We had a lobster, calamari, tiger prawn banquet last night!! yum! So along with eating everything on the menus, we might try our hand at a cooking class or two. There is also lots of elephants to visit and wild tigers to find. Kerala is also famous for its backwaters, lots of channels cris-crossing the region and a lazy cruise to enjoy while visiting some small villages. So THEN, after Christmas comes and goes (hopefully not too insignificantly), our plan is to head up the east coast as far as Calcutta and then inland to visit the Golden triangle (Taj Mahal and the likes) and finally Delhi.

Eek, not long to go really!