chrischarly


700 Blog Entries
6 Trips
5148 Photos
Send email to chrischarly add chrischarly to my buddy list
Trips: Chris and Charly Down Under Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia Chris and Charly's Pacific Island Pit-Stop Chris and Charly's mini trip to The States Chris and Charly's African Adventure Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey Shorthand link: http://blogabond.com/chrischarly

Buddy List

Jason Kester

butchop

chris_j_knight78

A Huge Snake...

Bentota, Sri Lanka

The pool ready for our swimming challenge

Right behind the pool today was a huge snake hiding in the toilet/massage room!!! The photo is in the photo album though and not on this entry as Chris' mum is so petrified of snakes she can't look at the photo! Bless her she won't even go and have a massage now in case she comes face-to-face with them!

written by

chrischarly on January 17, 2011 from Bentota, Sri Lanka

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

Send a Compliment

comment on this...

A Huge Toad

Bentota, Sri Lanka

Yet again another chill day...

check out the massive toad though!!!

The toad

The huge toad

A wine bottle put behind the toad to show just how big it was

written by

chrischarly on January 16, 2011 from Bentota, Sri Lanka

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

Send a Compliment

1 comment...

Lovely Lovely Lovely Lovely Lovely Lovely Chill day...

Bentota, Sri Lanka

Today was a great day spending time doing very little and loving it...

Charly and Mum chilling

Our balcony

although not much sunshin here today... at least we are not in the U.K though!!! Hehe...

written by

chrischarly on January 15, 2011 from Bentota, Sri Lanka

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

Send a Compliment

comment on this...

Finally in Paradise!!

Colombo, Sri Lanka

It is amazing how clean it is here!.. No filthy streets littered with litter!! No stinky smells!! Paradise!! After waiting for over 6 hours for Chris' parents to arrive it was great to see them again and driving to the luxurious Bentota and stay in Karen and Rohan's gorgeous Guest House...

Our lovely bedroom, for 1 night, till we get moved !!

Our lovely bathroom, for 1 night, till we get moved !!

1st night in Sri Lanka

Mmmmmm, Lion beer... first one for 2.5 weeks!!

Charly and her 1st drink for 2.5 months!!

Time for some pampering!! Yay!!

written by

chrischarly on January 14, 2011 from Colombo, Sri Lanka

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

Send a Compliment

comment on this...

Last day in India; quite possibly forever!

Chennai, India

Today we chilled in Pondicherry for a few hours before getting a bus back to Chennai airport ready to fly to Sri Lanka!! How exciting!! Although we've had many great experiences here in India; I can't see us hurrying back there. It's pretty hard work to be honest and not as fanastic as we expected it to be...

1st on the plane !

On our flight Chennai to Colombo

Anyway next stop: Sri Lanka!!

written by

chrischarly on January 13, 2011 from Chennai, India

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

Send a Compliment

comment on this...

Walking around the French town of Pondicherry

Pondicherry, India

The Gandhi statue

Along the beach-front

Happy to be in Pondicherry!!!

Today we did a lot of exploring of the beautiful Pondicherry; our last stop before Sri Lanka!!

written by

chrischarly on January 12, 2011 from Pondicherry, India

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

Send a Compliment

comment on this...

Rip-off-Rickshaws...

Chennai, India

Once we got off the train we took a rip-off-rickshaw to the main bus stand in Chennai. It was huge and in fact in largest bus station in the whole of Asia which isn’t surprising when you see the size of it! Yet somehow the first bus driver we asked was going to Pondicherry so it wasn’t as hard as we thought it would be. The journey was long but comfortable as we managed to get the front seats.

Chris having a lie-down

Our neighbours

Charly climbing up the ladder

The view from our little hut

When we arrived in Pondicherry we took another rip-off-rickshaw, and then another until many hours later we found suitable accommodation going outside of town. It was such a mission as all the places were either too expensive or right dives. Finally we found somewhere nice yet rustic on the beach.

written by

chrischarly on January 11, 2011 from Chennai, India

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

Send a Compliment

comment on this...

Bye Bye Bhavesh...

Vijayawada, India

Today we had to take another train to Chennai in the evening and although it only had one stop before us to go, only 20 minutes away, it still managed to be 2 ½ hours late to arrive, maybe it is just the norm but still very irritating!

Lights to tell you when the toilets are being used!! How clever!!

A little bit of luxury on our last journey

Our first-class cabin!

This time however we decided to treat ourselves to a first class ticket for our last train journey and although expensive it was nice to have a little bit of luxury. We managed to get the only compartment on the whole train which was for 2 people and it was fantastic with larger beds and loads of space!

written by

chrischarly on January 10, 2011 from Vijayawada, India

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

Send a Compliment

comment on this...

Fantastic 2nd couch sufing experience!!

Secunderabad, India

Our bedroom/ living room

When we’d woken up Bhavesh had already gone out and brought breakfast for us! It was delicious! Then we went off to meet his lovely family before he took us around to see the sights of Secunderbad and Hyderbad.

Chris

It’s so much nicer spending time with the locals in India than staying in a dodgy hostel or hotel.

written by

chrischarly on January 8, 2011 from Secunderabad, India

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

Send a Compliment

comment on this...

A whole day and night on a train... How delightful!!

Balharshah, India

A pretty butterfly

Arriving at the airport at midnight in Katni we were in plenty of time for our train due to depart at 1:10am. As usual when it comes to luck with public transport, both myself and Chris have very little. We were frozen solid with a metal bench to sit on watching the locals 'go the toilet' anywhere they could find a space... Nice... The train arrived just before 3am in completely the wrong platform, but still we made it, thankfully! So for the next 20 hours we just slept and chilled till the train arrived, of course very late than sceduled in Secunderbad.

written by

chrischarly on January 7, 2011 from Balharshah, India

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

Send a Compliment

comment on this...

Viewing 521 - 530 of 700 Entries
first | previous | next | last