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A blog of our various trips across the world and anything else we feel like writing about.

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Glastonbury
DDR: Our final stop. Glasto remains the best place in the world. We’re getting married! What better way to end our trip then with our...
Emma Duckworth
Jun 30, 20244 min read
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Mexico III - Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido & Valladolid
Emma was still in Mexico City continuing her Spanish language course so I decided to squeeze some more solo travel in Oaxaca. I booked...

Nikhil Shah
Jun 23, 20248 min read
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Mexico II - Mexico City
DDR: Mexico City lives up to the hype of sensational food, beautiful art and architecture. 5 days of focus and it did wonders for my...
Emma Duckworth
Jun 14, 20245 min read
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Mexico I - Chichen Itza, Merida & Bacalar
We made a spontaneous decision to head to Mexico whilst down a few drinks in Ibiza. The best travel decisions have always been the...

Nikhil Shah
Jun 7, 20246 min read
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Ibiza - C&M's Wedding + Time With Friends
The flight to Ibiza was the rowdiest flight we’d seen across all our travels. The plane ride was a feast for the senses. Amongst the...

Nikhil Shah
May 30, 20245 min read
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Eurotrip - Sofia, Skopje, Belgrade, Budapest & Bratislava
For the next chapter we had 8 nights to fill between Ikos and Ibiza. There was a very long shortlist, and we went back and forth over how...
Emma Duckworth
May 24, 20246 min read
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Family Time - Cotswolds, Athens & Ikos
After our 4 month stint in Asia & Oceania it was finally time to come home for a short week and celebrate Emma’s mums and brother’s joint...

Nikhil Shah
May 15, 20245 min read
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Sri Lanka - Kandy, Ella, Hiriketiya, Ahangama & Galle
DDR: Sri Lanka is up there as one of the most beautifully lush and green countries with incredibly friendly and chilled out people, great...
Emma Duckworth
Apr 30, 20248 min read
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Japan II - Hakone, Kyoto & Osaka (Nara & Hiroshima)
It wasn't a great start to the second week of Japan. I was ill again. Perhaps the intensity of finally skiing/boarding again and the...

Nikhil Shah
Apr 14, 202410 min read
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Japan I - Okishiga & Tokyo
7eleven greeted us like and old friend when we arrived late in Tokyo. We enjoyed a sumptuous dinner and had a relaxing early evening,...
Emma Duckworth
Apr 8, 20247 min read
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Vietnam II - Sapa, Hanoi & Halong bay
Sapa We don't really plan too much in advance. Aside from flights, once we're in a country we only book things a couple of days at time....

Nikhil Shah
Mar 30, 202411 min read
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Vietnam I - Ho Chi Minh & Hoi An
Friends! It was so exciting to land in Ho Chi Minh as we would be spending the next 2 weeks with some of our best friends. Domi and...
Emma Duckworth
Mar 23, 20248 min read
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Taiwain II - Alishan Mountains & Kaohsiung City
Taipei had felt like a home away from home. An extended weekend in the London of East Asia. So next up was Alishan, an area in the...

Nikhil Shah
Mar 19, 20246 min read
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Taiwan I - Taipei 101
DDR: Taipei is a beautiful, chilled out city with amazing food, cool people and lots of art and culture. We had a great time, bar some...
Emma Duckworth
Mar 13, 20246 min read
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Philippines II: Tao & The Lost Boys
TLDR: Island hopping in the Philippines is fun. The Tao Philippines expedition was a birthday present from Emma. Many of our friends...

Nikhil Shah
Mar 7, 202411 min read
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Philippines I: Palawan
DDR: Palawan is a tropical paradise island where you can eat great food, snorkel, dive, surf, drive scooters, enjoy beach bars and get...
Emma Duckworth
Mar 2, 20248 min read
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New Zealand III - South island (Part 2)
Queenstown (17th - 19th Feb ) After the amazing scenery of Milford Sounds and tranquility of the surrounding areas, Emma and I were happy...

Nikhil Shah
Feb 24, 20248 min read
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New Zealand II - South Island (Part 1)
DDR: South Island is epic. Incredible nature, great wine, more glow worms, even more beautiful lakes, whales, seals and a little bit of...
Emma Duckworth
Feb 17, 20245 min read
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New Zealand I - North Island
Day 1 - Auckland With 1 hour for us to disembark our flight from Singapore, clear Australian immigration, collect bags, check in, bag...

Nikhil Shah
Feb 11, 20248 min read
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48 hours in Singapore
To combat the long journey and (hopefully) mitigate jet lag in New Zeland, we added a mini-visit to Singapore. In just 2 days we had a...
Emma Duckworth
Feb 1, 20246 min read
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Mumbai
This time I figured out how to opt for a fancier night bus (labelled primo on the makemytrip app) and was ready for my final sleep before...

Nikhil Shah
Jan 28, 20245 min read
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Goa
I had spent a few days solo in Hampi and was now looking forward to interact with actual people at a social hostel I had booked,...

Nikhil Shah
Jan 25, 20245 min read
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Rishikesh V
For our 3rd week in Rishikesh we had a new schedule. Philosophy, anatomy and meditation all finished and we had a few new classes. These...
Emma Duckworth
Jan 25, 20245 min read
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Wayanad, Mysore & Hampi
Struggling to decide where to go on my next stop, I was on the phone to my cousin Naman, who had mentioned Wayanad as another potential...

Nikhil Shah
Jan 21, 20245 min read
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Munnar
Journeys in India are as much of an adventure as the destination.. sometimes more. This time rather than get a (relatively) expensive...

Nikhil Shah
Jan 16, 20245 min read
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Rishikesh IV
By the end of week 2, we'd found a nice rhythm. Our final class of the day is meditation, and our meditation teacher, Ram, joins us for...
Emma Duckworth
Jan 15, 20243 min read
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Rishikesh III
For my day off, I headed to Dehradun, to meet Dr Singh, aka my boss's mum. She is a wonderful lady, and I had a great time meeting her...
Emma Duckworth
Jan 11, 20244 min read
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Varkala
I managed to pool together with 3 others I had met on the backwaters trip and share a taxi to Varkala. The journey was in a rickety old...

Nikhil Shah
Jan 9, 20244 min read
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Rishikesh II
I have made it to the end of week 1! Today was kicked off with cleansing, Jal Neti, specifically cleansing of the nostrils by pouring a...
Emma Duckworth
Jan 6, 20243 min read
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Kochi & Alleppey
I went straight from the airport to the accommodation I was staying at in Fort Kochi. The place was very simple and had a nice and...

Nikhil Shah
Jan 6, 20244 min read
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Rishikesh I
After a slightly less eventful flight to Delhi (upgrade, thank you BA!) I landed in Delhi and made my way to the rather terrifying Smart...
Emma Duckworth
Jan 3, 20244 min read
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The Flight to India
Now, normally I wouldn’t have written about the flight but this was a classic Air India comedy of errors. Having previously had a...

Nikhil Shah
Jan 2, 20242 min read
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