Pete & Vic´s Big Trip
In and around World
So we've packed and repacked our bags a few times and it looks like it might just be possible for us to take the majority of the travelling stuff we've collected over the last year. We've also re-acquired our passports from the Nepalese embassy so it looks like we can actually leave after all.
If everything goes to plan we should end up in a few of the following places:
Socks, pants, 2 rolls of toilet paper and a ball of string..."
- Coventry! (24th Jan)
- Paris (24th Jan)
- Barcelona (27th Jan)
- Seville (29th Jan)
- Morroco (1st Feb)
- Sahara Camel Trek (11th Feb)
- India (1st March)
- Nepal Himalayan Trek (30th March)
- Poland (29th April)
- Serbia & Montenegro (5th May)
- Croatia (8th May)
- Romania (13th May)
- Hungary (24th May)
- Home! (27th May)
Well, I guess we'll see you all in 4 months anyway whatever route we take.
Have fun! Love,
Pete & Vicky.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler Peter and the Woolf
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Paris
After dragging our bags from the airport bus to Montmartre (a non trivial distance), we treated ourselves to a rather civilised lunch in the main s... Continue reading »
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Barcelona
The overnight train journey from Paris to Barcelona was amazing. No really it was, we're not just train spotters. We had treated ourselves to first... Continue reading »
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Sevilla
Sun glorious sun! Actually we shouldn't get too excited as it's still only 1 degree in the morning. By midday though, it's definitely comfortable e... Continue reading »
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Tangier
We had a nice sunny ferry crossing from Algeciras to Tangier and getting out of the port at Tangier to the hotel wasn't actually as bad as we thoug... Continue reading »
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Chefchaouen
We were relieved to arrive in Chefchaouen, and even managed to retrieve our own bags from the bus, avoiding the chain of bag handlers who find it i... Continue reading »
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Fes
The bus journey to Fes was a very relaxed afair. We were told, rather optimistically it seems, that the journey would last a little over four hours... Continue reading »
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Meknes
It was only an hour on the train to get from Fes to Meknes. Realising we must be nearly there, we assembled our backpacks and made our way to one o... Continue reading »
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Essaouira
Essaouira is a great place to relax for a bit. It's a very scenic fishing village on the Atlantic coast which was apparently used for the filming o... Continue reading »
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Marrakesh
Marrakesh was certainly a change from the relaxing coast. After, a long walk from the train station, thanks to some dodgy map reading and the typic... Continue reading »
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Sahara Camel Trek
Our trip started with a drive over the impressive Tizi n' Tichka pass which crosses the Atlas mountains. The scenery was pretty green and there wer... Continue reading »
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Back in Marrakech
After much showering we had returned ourselves to a reasonable state of hygine and felt able to mix with the public once more so we went back to Dj... Continue reading »
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Casablanca
Our train journey to Casablanca was quite fun, if a little squashed as just before the train left a large group of Morrocan women squashed into our... Continue reading »
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Heathrow Airport
After a bit of a toiletries restock in 'Boots' and a read of the paper we settled down for a rather uncomfortable night's sleep in Terminal two and ca... Continue reading » -
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Mamallapuram
We arrived at Chennai airport in the middle of the night and got a taxi to our hotel in Mamallapuram. Waking up a bit late the next day but not fee... Continue reading »
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Pondicherry
When we arrived in Pondicherry, it was raining (apparently the first rainfall since November). It didn't really matter, though and at least it help... Continue reading »
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Trichy
Our train to Trichy turned out to be packed full of people going to a political party conference there, so it didn't come as much of a surprise to... Continue reading »
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Kochin
The journey from Trichy to Kochin was our first overnight train journey in India. The carriages are divided into sections which have four beds on o... Continue reading »
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Varkala
We arrived in Varkala just before 3pm and took a rickshaw from the station straight to some bamboo huts that we had decided it would be fun to stay in... Continue reading » -
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Kanyakumari
Pete had decided it would be fun to go to Kanyakumari as it is the southernmost tip of India and from here you can look out over both the Indian Ocean... Continue reading » -
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Kadaloram Beach Resort
Vicky's parents came out to Kovalam beach on a package holiday to meet up with us and also very kindly treated us to a few nights' stay in the same... Continue reading »
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Palolem
We arrived in Palolem late at night and pretty exhausted after a long day of travelling. Luckily there were still two autorickshaw drivers loiterin... Continue reading »
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Mumbai
We arrived in Mumbai at 5.30am on the overnight train from Goa and had to leave to catch the 9.30pm train to Aurangabad that night. We decided to m... Continue reading »
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Aurangabad
We arrive in Aurangabad on the overnight train from Mumbai at 4.30am and woke up the receptionist in the nearest hotel to the station so that we could... Continue reading » -
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Agra
When we stepped off the overnight train in Agra, we could sense that the levels of hassle we were about to receive were on the increase. After aski... Continue reading »
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Jaipur
When we stepped off the train in Jaipur it quickly became clear that, like Agra, this would not be a relaxing place to stay. Within seconds we were... Continue reading »
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Varanasi
We only had a few hours to spend in Varanasi between getting off the overnight train from Jaipur in the morning and catching an overnight train to... Continue reading »
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Calcutta
We arrived in Calcutta at about 9am on the overnight train from Varanasi. Instead of being surrounded by touts on the platform, we were greeted by... Continue reading »
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Raxaul - Birganj
We had a good sleep on our final overnight train in India despite the obvious rodent infestation and the usual symphony of bodily noises from our f... Continue reading »
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Kathmandu
We were relieved to arrive at our hotel in Kathmandu in the evening and quickly took our bags to our room before heading to the restaurant for some... Continue reading »
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The Annapurna Circuit Trek
We left Kathmandu to start our 18 day trek in the Annapurna range of the Himalayas. The trek covered over 200km distance and involved climbing almo... Continue reading »
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Return to Kathmandu
We arrived at Kathmandu airport from Pokhara during one of the 'curfews'. We knew from the news that several protesters had been shot for breaking the... Continue reading » -
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Delhi
When we arrived at Delhi airport from Kathmandu, we decided to try bringing our flight to Poland forward in order to avoid a five day stay in Delhi. (... Continue reading » -
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Heathrow Again
It was surprisingly pleasant to get back to Heathrow airport where things seemed relatively orderly, calm and hygenic again. It was also a great relie... Continue reading » -
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Warsaw
We didn't really have any prior expectations of Warsaw as we've never heard anyone say anything particulalry nice about it. However, we were surp... Continue reading »
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