Monday 26 December 2011

Quick fling with India and the return home sweet home


 Well what can we say about India, it lives up to India:
  • It's dirty: rubbish thrown everywhere, people going to the toilet erm... everywhere, a lot of pollution.
  • It smells.
  • People stare at you.
  • People see money when they look at you.
  • In Nepal, when you say you're from England people say "good country". In India a tuc tuc driver said "England bad. English crazy people. You all think you know everything. No one knows everything. I know everything about English".
  • They have a really interesting history and some wonderfully impressive buildings.
  • People seem to really believe in their religions.
  • We met some lovely locals too, like Indian Jesus who was so nice about the fact the power went and we had to wait 3 hours for our meal and the hotel receptionist who spoke to us about his country, religion, his secret girlfriend, history, religion, music, while we waited around for our night train.
  • It's incredibly cheap.
  • It's full of extremes: 5 star hotels next to slums and poverty.
  • It's definitely a challenge.
So, after 12 weeks in Nepal and 10 days in India, we decided to come home in time for Christmas. We still really want to travel but think we'll stick to shorter trips with higher budgets. So for now it's the end of that adventure but definitely a start to a new one. Got lots of work to do and we're very pleased to be back home. At the start of the trip, we didn't have much good to say about our homeland but now we do. We're far too snobby and love good food, hot showers, clean sheets, drinkable tap water...

Having said that, can't wait to get away somewhere again.

Well what did you expect, this is Kody and Hayley, two of the most indecisive people you'll ever meet. Ah well, at least we're both like it.

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