right poongar! right!

went on a 4 day camel safari! slept under the stars and it was like the nightsky had opened up - there were so many stars. saw about 5 shooting stars and we even saw the moon RISE from the horizon! on the down side i got ill on the 2nd and 3rd day which wasnt much fun. we listened to our ipods whilst riding our camels which made the ride all the more surreal - listening to 'let it snow' by dean martin as im was trekking in baking dessert weather. the funniest moment was camel racing whilst 'anarchy in the uk' by the pistols blurted out into my ears and in my perephiveral view i could see damian dropping everything as his camel bobbed up and down.

when we got back from our camel trek i fell ill properly and had the shits. we had to cancel our coach ticket and spend another night here in jaisalmer just sitting on the bed reading our books - i finished my libertines book and dame finished his dan brown 'deception point', which we've now swapped. fortunately after taking some of dames imodiam stuff its put a cork in it. our coach to jaipur leaves in an hour and a half where we will watch england play india in a one day cricket friendly - on my 23rd birthday, woohoo.

thats about it really, oh, good choice of pic dame - biggest turban in the world! haha! as dames still not finished on his comp ill just waffle on. er... oh, damian did this really embarrasing fart in the dessert when telling us this emotional story - it was one of those ones which catches the farter by suprise - haha! on that note...

garl x

ps. my camel was named poongar and kept walking though massive bushes
pps. massive thanks to alana for the songs on the pod, not sure about 'when a child is born' by johnny mathis though. x

cars and world's biggest turban

Turtle and Gunner Gooner Bang Bang

2nd time of asking

tried to blog something last week but their was another bleeding electricty cut just as i was about to publish it. got quiet angry. grrr.

dames in another internet cafe as thier wasnt enough comps at his one. hes probably updating our travel diary. well i hope he is cause ive just been dossing about on the net. if he hasnt heres our dairy highlights in non-boring form: 1) saw some caves 2) went to a utentil museum 3)watched octopussy 4) went on a boat ride 5) missed ther boat back 6) went to a fort 7) no seven.

i hope dames putting pics up aswell. im just getting lazy now.

garlen xox

we're alive

Hi,

Just a quick update to let you know we're OK. Useless computers again but hopefully in the next few days we'll find a better Internet place and put some pictures on and Garlen can add a longer update.
Left Mumbai last week and we're now in a place called Udaipur (North of India)at the mo, it's quite cool a riverside town with loads of palaces, temples and winding closed in streets, a bit like venice. We also stopped off on our way here in a town called Aurangabad to visit some near by temples carved into the side of caves.
Have picked at a fellow traveller called, she's from Swindon and is probably going to be with us for the next few weeks.
Has just started thundering and raining here, which actually makes a nice change!
Not suprised to see Arsenal made it through to the next round of the european cup, last english team! It's a burden but we'll have to carry it again.

Take care, Damian

Neptune, Bez and Jason from Big Brother

Bonjour,

Sorry for the late update, we slept most of yesterday after a nightmare coach journey but hopefully next week the updates will go back to Thursdays.
I would like to start by responding to Garlen’s vilification of me in his last post. Firstly, the origami chicken, made by Garlen to sound like some sort of lethal weapon, was in fact fashioned by me using a paper napkin from the dinner table. Secondly, how much can a paper napkin in the eye actually hurt? Even if you’ve recently had laser surgery as he keeps reminding me.
Anyway, we’ve basically spent the last week on a beach called Anjuna. It’s quite nice there, but everyone insits on constantly playing trance and Bob Marley, which can get annoying and when you’ve got a hang over isn’t the best way to start your day.
We went to a club on the first night and stayed there till 5am after getting drunk on oversized Vodka drinks. While there we did see Bez from the happy Mondays and Neptune the god of the sea (may have had something to do with the Vodka) oh and they strangely sell eggs at the club.
We also met two Danish girls (Garlen unleashed the Lo charm, they were helpless, oh and I chipped in by asking how you say achoo in Danish. It’s achoo in case you were wondering) who we were supposed to meet the next night but we forgot where.
We did however go to the near by Baga beach (Costa Del Goa) on the following night where we tried the nicest food we have eaten on our trip, it’s called Manchurian cauliflower – basically cauliflower fried in honey sesame seeds and soy sauce. We also went to a hip hop club and got a bit ghetto. We saw another celebrity while there; Scottish Jason from Big Brother, he was on his own I felt a bit sorry for him.
We also bumped into the Danish girls again and ended up watching the sunrise on the beach with them and a few Indian guys we had met. I stupidly left my shoes by the water and lost them to the sea, god rest their souls. (Sorry)
Met the Danish girls again and did the same the next night. Went back to Anjuna got a couple of hours sleep but in the morning the woman landlord kicked us out of our rooms and we moved to near by Vagator beach for a night and stayed with some weird Indian midget bow legged people. Again met Stena and Tania (I think they wanted to go to the club again as they met us all dolled up but instead we took them for a night playing table tennis at a sports bar – a charm offensive no girl could resist – as we are lazy) We stayed up all night again then got a night bus to Bombay (was a bit like being in a tumble dryer with a bunch of sweaty Indians) where we are now.
Spent the day walking around Bombay. The place smells and has loads of beggars, but we’ve learnt how to ignore them. It also has lots of old colonial buildings, so we’re doing the whole culture thing. Tomorrow we’re going to a laughing club – they just sit about chuckling – and going to be extras in a bollywood movie.
Couple of quick last points, Garlen is a good fisherman, we went fishing in pollelm both caught fish but he walked into a restaurant with his and got them to cook it. And I am crap at haggling, I managed to buy some string for a pendant I have at the bargin price of 100 rupees or 77p. It took me twenty minutes to get the price that low.
No pictures this week as the computers here are all useless!

a brief hello

hello - the internet in this place is so slow. not even worth trying to upload pics. dame has taken care of this weeks report. hope he mentioned my fish. speaking of fish. we went to mcdonalds in bombay. i had a fillet o fish but over here they call it 'le fillet o fish', they dont really. damian got some massive curry burger thing.

des - your story bout u and your safety badge after being told ur brother was born. haha. come to asia scrooge mcdes. shitty about ur card, how they do that?
alana - u bully! heard shes got bad kidneys too now! oh, and ive gone and scratched my new red 'ray bans' which means im now gonna have to haggle for another pair of specs!

bye for now, garlen.