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. […]
India November 2023
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 […]
“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 […]
Incredible India
I can’t believe that it is now one year since I retired. I am truly grateful and appreciative of how privileged I am to have done what I have done in the last twelve months. Most of the joy of the last year has not been recorded on here – the time spent with family […]