After a nice brekkie of scrambled egg on toast and a fresh fruit salad, our driver picked us up at 10am and took us first to the City Palace. Another huge building in the usual grand style with some beautifully decorated doors. It wasn’t too expensive, either, at 180Rs including the camera fee. There wasn’t [...]

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I’ve split the Accommodation Page up into sections to make it easier to navigate. Also, I’ve got every place we’ve stayed at so far in India up there and it gets updated when the blog does (or as close to as I can manage). Cities within countries are now ordered alphabetically rather than by order [...]

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After a relaxing night listening to random MP3s and deciding on concrete details for our tour itinerary, we crashed out. My left ear is actually a little swollen and painful and I think it’s due to overuse of the earplugs I’ve been clagging in each night. I gave them a miss, and instead was regaled [...]

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Hans shifted his backside out of bed at a reasonable hour for once. I was actually impressed. Breakfast was gulped down, minimal packing done, bills paid and a car loaded up. We left the hotel shortly after 9am and got on the road to Pushkar. The road in question is a good one by Indian [...]

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Well, it wasn’t so bad a night after all. We sat up till late talking about obscure heavy metal bands and drinking all the beer in the hotel. All two bottles of it that they’d bought earlier in the day from the market for us, so we could hardly turn it down! Come morning, we [...]

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Right now we’re concentrating on upcoming plans. You’ll may have noticed that the list of destinations on the right of the page has changed. Trust me, it’s been altered a lot more than that on my laptop between uploads. Today was very eventless as far as sightseeing goes, but we’ve booked flights from Delhi to [...]

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Hans actually managed to regain consciousness before 9am this morning so we had breakfast before our driver took us out for the day. Our first stop was the Umaid Bhawan palace which we’d gone past the previous day on the way to the polo game. This is a truly beautiful building which took 15 years [...]

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This was a strange day, but in a nice way. Once more I had to open all the windows, make lots of noise and throw things at Hans to get him to wake up. Delayed, we skipped breakfast and hopped into the car. In a way, it’s a good job we were on an empty [...]

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Continuing the Rajasthan epic, we rose after a decent kip and enjoyed an OK breakfast before loading the car up. This time, we went for the less labour intensive option of chucking Hans’ stuff on the front seat and just squishing mine into the boot. And off we set. We drove for about four hours, [...]

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It was like being back in the outback – alarms ringing at 6:30 in the morning and realising that the world was already awake. Except for Hans who rolled back over again. Delhi’s not as bustly as Hanoi in the mornings – the city doesn’t really start to work itself into a horn-beeping frenzy until [...]

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