Monthly Archives: May 2018

All Sorts of Forts, Palaces and Holy Places…

Well what can we say so far.  Well it’s hot, India is changing, and they are very holy.  Agra was superb, but we then moved on to the Pink City of Jaipur. This is a city modernising very fast, with a new underground etc., but our hotel was stuck in the past.  We believe that […]

Bye Bye Delhi, and Hello Agra

We are loving this trip already.  After we got used to the stifling heat (around 40 degrees) and the traffic and general hubbub, we have enjoyed Delhi and Agra enormously.  There are loads of pictures on the Delhi and Agra pages if you’re interested.    Our homes for the next 18 months Delhi was much […]

Swimming With the Eagles

The blog title just about sums up the madness of the last 24 hours.  Yesterday afternoon at this time we had just managed to complete packing the rucksacks – it was a bit of a push, but we managed to get everything in that we wanted. Then we bid fairwell to Reading, got on the […]