Monthly Archives: August 2018

Kayaking Through the Karsts

So after a very quick, and total surprise, visit to the UK for a family party, we have moved onto Vietnam, Even on arrival you get the sense that South East Asia will be different as just arriving at the airport, going through immigration, and getting a taxi to the Airbnb was slick and easy. […]

Highlights So Far….

As we leave the Indian Sub-continent, we have been asked a few times what were our “best bits”. As far as sights go, the Taj Mahal, particularly viewed from across the Yamuna River at sunset, the Golden Temple in Amritsar at night, and the incredible trek to the Tiger’s Nest Monastery in Paro, Bhutan were […]

Our Final Week in India

Because we had a fixed date to get to Vietnam, our last week involved a lot of travelling, but in various forms.  Firstly we left Kolkata by sleeper train.  After a ride through the city, and over the large bridge over the Hooghly River, we arrived at the massive Howrah Station.  We found our comfortable […]

West Bengal – a Tale of Two Cities

Well we have now returned back to India after a brief, but beautiful, trip to Bangladesh.  The 24 hour journey from Sylhet involved a minibus to the border, a taxi to Shillong, a “just caught in time” air-conditioned bus to Siliguri, and a private jeep to Darjeeling.  All so that we could be the only […]