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 […]
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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 Haugesund originally made its money from herring fishing.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 […]
Water, water everywhere
Going by ship can still mean an early start as we had to get to Southampton and so we were up at 05:45, and after a flawless connection by luxury coach travel we got to Southampton by 13:30. Check in was far less painful than at an airport despite me not following my own airport/flying […]
Arrivederci
So our three weeks in Italy have come to an end – its unbelievable how quickly it has flown by. I’ve given the details in previous posts but here are some of our thoughts. Italy is as wonderful as everyone has told us, the history, the scenery, the people, the coffee and the food and […]