ScrewYouGuys!

After a hellish 13hr train journey we finally arrived at Varanasi station at 01:30am, it was cold and dark and we were fully preparing ourselves for a night on the streets burning street trash to keep us warm, seriously! As luck would have it though we met an off duty Rickshaw driver who could not [...]

Next day we went to the station to find out what the deal was with getting to Varanasi, we were told it was a 6hr journey on a local train and the choices were 12:30 or 18:30 departure times, again trying to avoid arriving early in the morning and having a night on a local [...]

We had a bit of a lay-in and then we headed for the train station. The train from Delhi to Varanasi was 12hrs and they said they only had local trains which would be a nightmare, it would also land us there at about 1-2am so that was a no go. We decided to travel [...]

Now then, last night whilst enjoying a few beers we agreed to a tour of the city from the chap that was plying us with drinks. It turns out it wasn’t the best decision we’ve ever made but he promised to come with us and show us a few places around the city, his English [...]

We spent our last day in Hampi not really doing much as I still wasn’t feeling particularly well and had to stay quite close to a loo! We got the bus to Hospet at 4pm which took 30mins, we then had a small wait before getting a train to Guntakal. This was a pleasant journey [...]

The journey to Hampi started with us both being a bit disgruntled in Goa, then similarly in Arambol (hippy central). Until we got to Goa we’d gotten use to local Indian food and staying in dumps and it was great. Goa gave us clean but expensive rooms and English breakfasts, we even found Marmite (but [...]

By the time we headed out it was later than we thought and everywhere looked closed. We asked for directions from a nice lady and when we said we were just looking at getting a beer she said she would serve us one before bed.
This was Moira’s place “La Manna”, the cleanest place we have [...]

Arriving back in Chennai was harsh, the dirty streets and the barrage of people trying to get you into their rickshaw or sell you opium was overwhelming. We thought we would try our luck with making it to Goa for New Years Eve, we had been told that all the trains would be booked and [...]

Back in Port Blair for the final time, we headed straight towards a shop where on our previous shopping trip we had surprisingly managed to find olives, cheese, tomatoes and onions as well as bruschetta style bread, we were going to be eating much better on the boat this time around. We also bought large [...]

As the boat pulled into the jetty we saw the familiar smiling face of one of our lovely waiters from Tango and it was a great feeling that we were back.
We arrived at Tango and joined Marie for breakfast and chatted with everyone as they woke regaling our tales from the big city! We were [...]