Category Archives: Travel
BACK TO DELHI AND ON TO HARIDWAR
I always found going back to Delhi exciting and this blog is an amalgam of back to Delhi from Nepal, and ten months later back to Delhi from France before a road trip up to Kashmir, which apparently was on … Continue reading
CALCUTTA A CITY OF CULTURE AND REFUGEES..draft
” Poverty and Pride..Side by Side” Rudyard Kipling on Calcutta “You are never alone in Calcutta” Michael Jennings The Howrah Mail ( “ the superfastmail train of Indian railways connecting two metropolitan cities of India, Kolkata and Chennai” ..Fast is all rather … Continue reading
VARANASI THE HOLY CITY
The corner shop next to the Gulnor hotel had the most delicious of vegetable samosas, so with four of these and some fruit and water I was ready for the night train to Varanasi. I had organised with Abid at … Continue reading
RETURN TO DELHI
We had experienced a torrential downpour on the drive back from Agra and now the seasonal monsoon had belatedly arrived in Delhi. It is quite impressive to see the absolute ferocity of an attack from the dark skies. The cycle … Continue reading
Jaipur Agra and Goodbye to Rajasthan
From Udaipur we turned back towards Jaipur, Agra and Delhi. For the last week we have been travelling further and further into ‘The Land of Kingdoms’ from Delhi not just in distance as Rajasthan is India’s largest state but culturally … Continue reading
