Monthly Archives: April 2010

Ootacamund, or ‘Ooty’ is an ex-British colonial hill station from which Southern India used to be governed during the hot Summer months, fuelled by acres of surrounding tea plantations. In recent times it’s become a typical crazily busy Indian town … Continue reading →

Kerala is famed for its backwaters so or next stop was Kollam where we hoped to charter a houseboat to drift in style through the peace of the mangroves and palm forests.  After much negaotiation we found oursleves in a small punt … Continue reading →

All this traveling about is hard work so we decided to take a well earned holiday and go to the tropical beaches of Kerala. We got a train ticket from a local travel agent who told us the journey would … Continue reading →

We were to be in Delhi for the Easter weekend so decided to mark it in the most English (and yet very Indian) way possible. It started with a nostalgic Wimpy burger on Saturday (Wimpy Biriyanis also available). On Easter … Continue reading →

We’ve just got back from the Kumbh Mela bathing fair – a supersized Glastonbury, but replacing music and drugs with religion and drugs. It takes place every 12 years in Haridwar, a small town on the Ganges and is the … Continue reading →

After a brief stopover back in Delhi we took a bumpy, death-defying seven hour bus ride up to Rishikesh. Our main mission was to visit the Kumbh Mela bathing festival in nearby Haridwar, our sub-mission was to relax in the … Continue reading →