We were up at 7:30 to make sure we reached the dive centre in time, and enjoyed a rather delicious breakfast. Tea, toast, scrambled eggs and fresh fruit. A good start to the morning, and all for 300RP… or so we thought. It turns out the German Lanka had booked us in under a B&;amp;B [...]

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We had a good sleep at Mala and Gilbert’s before being stuffed with far too much food. They also have a dog who’s about as timid as timid can be. About a year old, and he won’t come near us unless we have food. Instead he’s content to poke his head into the bedorom and [...]

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Well, all our trips and flights are now booked up until early February. Everything is now paid for with the exception of the Bhutan trip and that’s going through as I type this. After a day spent sorting all this out, we returned to the hotel, gathered our bags and taxi’d to the airport. Our [...]

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There’s not a whole heck o a lot to do here, so we idled in the hotel until midday when we had to check out. Making the most of the cable TV and so on, then dropping our bags into left luggage before hailing a cab into the city. McD’s for breakfast (at 1:30pm), then [...]

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I’ll get back to that title further down, but I’m not exaggerating. I am a law breaker. I am on the lam. And it’s not as exciting as you’d think! As detailed in the Accommodation for India page, the Hotel Pearl we opted for is good but a little out of the way. We hadn’t [...]

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Our flight boarded on time, and then took off slightly before it was due to land. Fog has been causing nightmares in Delhi and watching the news when we reached our hotel it seems we were lucky to get here tonight at all. We checked how much a taxi should cost us when we got [...]

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Another day to thank the inventor of ear plugs. Hans was awoken sometime in the night by someone hammering nails into a wall, or similar. Thankfully I slept though it, though the call for prayer at around 5:30 did rouse me slightly. I’d intended to have a shower in the morning, but I couldn’t tell [...]

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OK, we have two sections to today’s report. First of all the one to make you all jealous. While you were stuck with crappy television, repeats of comedy shows that were bad enough the first time, enough turkey to choke a herd of Tyranosaurs and so many paper hats the local fire brigade branded your [...]

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What a day. Traffic chaos, unplanned stops and a crappy hotel. Everything started well enough as we woke up, showered and left our nice little guest house in Jaipur. We’d met some nice people there, enjoyed the facilites and the food was great. As ever, our driver was prompt (early, in fact) and we loaded [...]

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Again, I still can’t get images on here. Blogger’s status page is down, and image upload just doesn’t seem to be working. And don’t get me started on the way the new version of Picasa doesn’t have a facility to date Blogger posts. Not that it posts to Blogger any more. Grr grr grr.

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