Pictures And Words

So now I am in Nepal. There was some mild relief upon arrival as I was in India with a visa extension that I grew more and more dubious about, especially when I heard the lawyer that helped me obtain it had been arrested for making false visa extensions. On the border though [...]

Stop the bus I want a wee wee,
Stop the bus I want a wee wee,
Stop the bus I want a wee wee,
And the driver wants a poo.

The wheels of the bus go round and round,
round and round,
round and round,
The wheels of the bus go round and round,
aaallll day long (literally in this case)

Here are a few more pictures from Leh. Including some extra special night shots.

Here are some of the reasons I came all this way to Leh.

I have just been completed one of the most amazing journeys I have been on. It lasted 4 days, it spanned temperatures from 45c to below 0, from a few hundred meters above sea level to heights that impede breathing. However, despite all this a major highlight of the journey was the feeling [...]

After some requests I filmed myself having a juggle. Here it is!

Another post! Hurrah for me! Hurrah for all you people who read this site! I’m sorry for letting you all down and not posting as much as I used too. My dad left me a message displaying his disappointment at me for not posting more, something along the lines of “you [...]

After 4 months of not writing, even totally neglecting emails I finally feel like writing again. I think something jarred my mind a bit which made writing not so appealing. I think it has to do with my sudden passion for juggling, and then a huge passion for drawing swept me up, I [...]

Last night I got back to my room around 2am, closed my windows and as I turned around I saw a snake coming in my room under the door. panic. Later I knew I panicked because I didn’t even think to take pictures of it, I just wanted it out of my room. [...]

Whilst in India I started to build up a collection of precious and semi-precious stones. I think I have some pirate blood in me because whenever I saw a jewel shop I would gorp into the window drooling at all the shiny stones. One day I hope to buy a treasure chest (and [...]

Again i’ve been a bit slack on the ole writing front, also I needed to pay the people that host my site some more money, so I didn’t want to upload before this time, why…I dunno, since I knew I was gonna pay them, I should start selling something on my site, just a little [...]

After some time with rare internet visits, taking many trains and a course of antibiotics, living on a beach, staring in a Bollywood movie and leaving hot places for even hotter places, I suddenly feel like sitting in front of my computer and writing for a while.

Hoorah! I finally left Delhi, and sheesh I was getting a bit sick of it. Its very high pressure, so much pestering. I spent a lot of time in my room reading, playing on my Nintendo DS and watching movies. It was just so much hassle to walk around getting….hassled, for [...]

Woooo!! The mighty mighty half monkey half man god Hanuman!! Wooo!!! Kneel before the great one!! And quite contraversial one, the upper caste Hindu’s don’t count him as a god, I think its because he’s half animal, and that does imply some promiscuity twixt man and beast, whereas the lower caste [...]

Im back in India! Im back taking photo’s! And im back posting to my website! For some of you this is more communication with me than it was when i was in England!
So yeah, im back, back to the stink and the filth, back to the con men and the [...]

Hello, my name is Indie and im from Manchester, in England, the United Kingdom of Great Britain. This site of mine has lots of photos on, and words from my very own hands and mind and memories. I’ve only recently come back to Manchester after traveling around for some months, having a lovely [...]

I’m now back down from the hill, soon everyone will be moving down, the two Swedish guys come down soon as well, one goes to Zimbabwe and the other has plans to come for a little jaunt with me, Dave and Rory. Which will be I don’t know where really. Had a lovely [...]

Its true, im living up the top of a very high hill, you could call it a mountain really. There’s a shepards village up there, that they only use in the monsoon time, at the moment they just sleep outside wherever they are. There’s no electricity or running water, there is a spring [...]

I was going to write something poignant about how everyone is searching for love and comfort, and how whilst traveling I find a sense of comfort, and a feeling of love for the people I meet and the scenery I see, and how even though im not working, and mainly just hanging out eating, chatting, [...]

Im now in Bagsu, near Daram Sala in the north of India. All very very nice here, it more than offsets the greif I felt when I found out that my Australian visa…well I don’t have an Australian visa anymore thats the thing. Got an email saying I don’t fulfil the criteria, ho [...]

Im in the Himalaya’s!!!!

Feels like ive not done a post in a long time, I guess I havn’t. I’m now in Varanasi, in the north, but still in the heat, gotta go further up vertical ways for cooler air.

Im now in Gokarna with Dave, on the east coast this time, its much much more picturesque than Puri, its a little more hipper, as in a more younger scene, there’s more touristy shops than Puri, but it is very very beautiful. Its a very small place, and a very religous place. As [...]

I am now in Bangalore, in the south. Its the most modern city in India, higher wages, higher prices, richer people, less poverty. Standing on the main shopping street you really could be in any major city in any country, there’s nothing really to distinguish it from the others. Lots of western [...]

I have finally left Puri, I was there for 3 weeks!! Didn’t think I was there for that long, very strange it was.
So now im in Bubaneswar, the closest city to Puri, it aint so good here, dirty as hell as usual, busy streets, wild drivers. There are however lots of things to [...]

I went to the fishing village the other day, its a little up the coast from where I am. Going there is a look into a different way of life, a way of life surrounding fishing. There’s lots of low straw roofed houses, many families all living close together. The beach is [...]

Cows! There’s cows everywhere here in Puri, so here is a much nicer top ten, its the “Top Ten Cows Of Puri”. Check out these cows!

Namaste to you all, thats a Hindu greeting, if you didn’t know. Im still in Puri, 10 days ive been here! I worked it out today, and I was a bit shocked, i would have said 7 days max, but no! 10! Its really nice here, really relaxing, ive been having a [...]

There’s an awful lot of dead turtles here on the beach, as you walk up along you constantly coming across another one, i’ve taken a lot of pictures of them and have decided to do a top ten dead turtles. So without further a do here’s “The Top Ten Dead Turtles of Puri!”

Im now in Puri, south of Calcutta on the coast, quite a popular seaside resort for Indian people. The train journey here was horrible, caught a sleeper train, the bed was a bit narrow and not long enough for me, but since i wasn’t in it that much it didn’t really matter. I [...]

Its my birthday today, ive not really done much to celebrate it, well ive done anything really, I guess I should get drunk later on.
Im leaving Calcutta tommorow, i bought a train ticket to go to a placed called Puri, south of here on the coast. As i was buying the ticket in a [...]

Been out and about a bit these last 2 days. Yesterday I went to the Botanical Gardens here in Colcutta, pretty nice they were, there’s some pictures of them in this post. A good thing about the gardens was i didn’t get mobbed everytime i took a picture, anywhere else and as soon [...]

Im in India! I love it! I love it more than the sound of babies crying! More than the sound of puppies in pain! More than the sound of bones breaking! (20 points to whoever knows what film I plagerised these laments from, which despite sounding negative im using to [...]