Category: India

We’ve stayed in a variety of accommodation during our two months in India, some of which we will not be recommending to anyone, well not to anyone we like! However, for our final days, here in Delhi, our accommodation is Read More …

Amritsar is a city in the northwestern state of Punjab, 28 kilometres from the border with Pakistan. Amritsar is only a one hour flight or an eight hour train journey from Delhi but what a different place we found ourselves Read More …

Some information for those of you who have not heard of Varanasi (like I hadn’t until about five years ago) Varanasi has been a cultural centre of northern India for several thousand years, and is closely associated with the Ganges. Read More …

I won’t bore you with every detail of our overnight sleeper train from Madgaon to Mumbai except to say the word sleep(er) should be removed from the name and type of train. We were in a second class aircon compartment Read More …

As I write this we are sat on the platform of a little local train station waiting to travel to the main Cochin station where we will be boarding our overnight sleeper train to Goa. I spotted a train coming Read More …

We bid a reluctant farewell to Fort Kochi and drove a couple of hours south to Alleppey. “It is the Venice of the East” they said, “The serene charm of Alleppey can be seen during a backwater cruise.” What they Read More …