We are really at the end as I sit here at 01:00 Indian time at Delhi airport waiting for our flight to Heathrow. The three weeks have flown by, literally as we now find we have “frequent flyer” status with Air India/Vistara having taken five internal flights so that we merited an upgrade on two. […]
just the two of us
Breathe in, breathe out . . . and relax
After a leisurely breakfast we were picked up and driven a couple of hours to Pallathuruthy for our trip on a houseboat. Whilst we drove through numerous villages around the rivers of Kerala we saw some wonderful churches, all different and colourful, some massive and bright coloured houses and many plant/garden centres. There was an […]
It’s a small world . . .
Thankfully after our 03:00 alarm we had a wonderful flight arriving at the first completely solar powered airport in the world. We travelled through palm tree lined villages and roads to the city. It has a completely different feel to anywhere we have been so far in India. It’s smaller and greener and where everywhere […]
Bombay Mix
There were two things we noticed when landing in Mumbai – the first was the heat and the second was the relative silence on the roads. The roads were busy, extremely busy as you would expect for a city with a population of 22 million, it’s just that there was virtually no honking of horns. […]
Town and Country
What a breath of fresh air Jodhpur is, literally. We are in the countryside on the edge of the city, and it is wonderful. Our hotel is in the style of a Rajasthan Palace with open corridors and a central garden courtyard. There is a fine cotton mesh over the corridor arches and the courtyard […]
Not all wonders are created equal . . .
After Varanasi we travelled to Agra with a short but delayed flight to Delhi and then a 4 hour drive, with it taking us one hour just to leave Delhi. After admiring the countryside and all the brick ovens en route we arrived in our hotel at 19:00. Not a single photograph was taken but […]
“I’ve been impressed with your sea legs” . . .
. . . Not my actual legs🤦🏻♀️ By the time you read this we will be back on UK soil and the washing machine will be strutting its stuff. Connectivity is non-existent on the ship as whilst the Wi-Fi is expensive the more pertinent issue is that its painfully slow. It took nearly 6 hours […]
A town built on herring bones
On Friday we woke up to the sight of a huge wind turbine outside the window. We didn’t know it at the time but how apt. Haugesund originally made its money from herring fishing. Then it’s industry changed to build the boats to fish the herring. Then it built the larger ships to export the […]
Our little orange ducklings
We are little ravers and sociable souls talking to lots of nice people and not going to bed until midnight each night so it really shocked us awake when the alarm went off at 06:30 – I mean this is supposed to be a holiday! We had a trip booked and we needed our tenders […]
We’ve made land
Maybe “Water, water everywhere” would have been a better title for this post as Monday night and Tuesday morning were rough. Very high winds battering the ship, making it difficult to walk without appearing drunk. So much water the decks were closed, apart from the outdoor jacuzzi and around the outdoor pool as that was […]