Friends, family and lost people of the internet, welcome to our travel blog.

First thing’s first, a credit to Angus Stevenson (colleague, confidant and communications god) for the title. He has a life-long dream to open an Indian restaurant by the same name, and hopefully this digital diary will also serve up a few spicy treats for you to digest.

We fly tomorrow (Tuesday 1st Feb) morning and are planning to travel around India and SE Asia until our money runs out, so we’ll probably be back next Thursday. We want to make the most of the trip so we’ve written a list of things we want to do while we’re there – a Bucket List if you will.  Some are serious, some are very silly, but we really do hope they all happen –

Appear in a Bollywood movie

Bribe an official

Catch a fish and eat it

Learn to sail

Stroke a manta ray

Do a number two in the desert, then cover it up

Catch a ping pong ball in our teeth

Scrub down an elephant

Sleep under the stars

Say something dramatic and then spit out some chewing tobacco

Fire a gun

Beat an Indian man in a physical contest, e.g. arm wrestle

Swing through the jungle on a vine

Stay in a five star hotel for free

Perform in front of a crowd

Ride an Enfield motorbike into Kashmir

Stay on a houseboat

Hand-rear a baby orang-utan

Work in a bar

Swim in the sea at night

Surf

Attend a wedding

Swim with sharks and/or dolphins

Get a tattoo

And that’s all for the time being. Hopefully when we have more time we can work on the blog design and upload pictures, but for now we send you a whole lot of love and we’re looking forward to seeing you when we return.  xxx