Round The World Trip 2006

Hello to you once again. I hope this email finds you all fit, well and healthy. Lynn and I are both fine and after 12 days in India neither of us has yet had the much anticipated Delhi-belly! Long may the run (and not the runs) continue, that's what I say! Before I get started proper and whilst I'm on the subject of food (sort of), I can only say that the tastes and smells of India's cuisine are even more exquisite than they are at home. I've been looking for the good old English "Balti" but no one seems to have exported it the other way and started cooking it here! Well, we arrived in Mumbai 12 days ago and we're now in Delhi in a little hotel that is tightly nestled between the New Delhi Railway Station and the Pahar Ganj Cemetery. Chaotic and noisy on one side, deathly silent on the other - Atleast if I get mowed down by a train they won't have far to take me! Before I recount what we've been up to since our belated arrival here I'd just lik...

G'day to you all! I hope this episode finds you all well. Lynn and I are now in Mumbai, India and just about coping with the oppressive heat. If I carry on perspiring at the current rate though then this may very well be the last blog I write as I will undoubtedly dribble away to nothing before the week is out! Before I start this episode proper and before the season turns sour I'd just like to gloat over the fact that Aston Villa are the last unbeaten team in the Premiership now - Come on you Villans!!! [And with Fulham at home on Saturday this run looks likely to continue don't you think, Phil?!] Well, that little outburst over with, here is the next edition of our trip detailing what we got up to during our stop-over in Sydney, Australia. Unless you have a brain like a sieve you already know the reason why we ended up 'stuck' here for 10 days rather than the 3 days we had originally planned. But if you do need reminding then it's all in the last episode! So, ...

Hello to you! Well, Lynn and I have left New Zealand and we're now in Sydney, Australia. My original plan had been to tell you all about New Zealand's South Island and our 3 day stopover in Sydney both in this one episode. However, our 3 day stopover in Sydney should have ended yesterday with a flight to Mumbai, India. But we're not on our way to India, we're not even at the airport waiting to go to India. Nope, we're sat in an internet cafe in downtown Sydney. "So, what's going on? Why are you still there?" I hear you cry. Well, the basic jist of it is this.... The week before leaving England back in February, 2006 I thought I would do a bit of homework and find out all I could regarding what visas were needed for what countries and whether they had to be applied for in advance or whether they were issued at the border. [I'm sure you know where this is heading now!] Some, infact most, countries on our itinerary issue the visa upon arrival in the c...