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 […]
Author: Sarah Isaacs
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 […]
“It’s like Milton Keynes” said our guide proudly
Jaipur is known as the Pink City as much of it is created out of pink sandstone, although it looks vaguely orange to me. The best example is Hawa Mahal. What wasn’t built pink was painted pink to welcome the Prince of Wales in 1876. Even though it was built in the early 1700s it […]
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 […]
The city of spiritual light . . . and yes you can have our autograph
It was the right time to leave Delhi early on Monday morning. The pollution was high as post Diwali firework smog settled over the city and the inhabitants prayed for rain to clear it. Being English we holiday to escape the rain! The one positive was that the sun was turned into a sparkling ball […]
The eight cities of Delhi
After a great journey where not a single person was interested in my hand luggage (you may need to see my first post on Italy to understand that!) we have arrived and first impressions were great. We have never got off a plane and walked straight through immigration without having to queue. Arrivals gave some […]
“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 […]