Hello and welcome to my final travel blog! After 7 months on the road the time has come for me to finally return home, and I write this blog from my last hotel, which is conveniently situated close to Delhi Airport. A taxi is picking me up tomorrow morning at 5.15am and I am scheduled to fly at 8.15am, landing 9 hours 5 minutes later at 12.50pm. It will be the 12th flight of my world trip and I can't wait till its over. I will be mightily relieved when I land at ...

First of all to the good news - Best Avoided Airways finally confirmed my flight this morning, so I can now breathe easy and look forward to coming home on Sunday. Its a shame they didn't do it sooner because waiting for their second strike schedule did concern me throughout my time in Varanasi, but I'm just majorly relieved they haven't cancelled my flight. Varanasi is another of Hinduism's most sacred cities. It is situated on the banks of the River Ganges at ...

Hello from India's biggest tourist hotspot, Agra. The vast majority of travelers to India will visit this city of 1.3 million at some point during their trip to the subcontinent, and the reason why is simple - Agra is home to the most beautiful building in the world, the Taj Mahal. If it wasn't for the Taj Mahal I'm not sure if I would have come to India this trip, and I'm sure that's the case for many other travelers as well. So I wasn't disappointed when we t...

I'm now in Agra, but I've a little bit of catching up to do on my blog before I update all about my visit to India's most famous monument, the Taj Mahal. Last I updated I was in Jaipur readying myself for a night out at an Indian cinema! Unfortunately the film we wanted to see was not showing that night at the one screen cinema, so instead we were forced to watch a Warner Brothers comedy movie about an unwanted guest whose hosts could not get rid of him. Being ...

I've been keeping an eye on the temperatures back home ahead of my impending return to Britain, and I saw that yesterday it reached the dizzying heights of 14C in London - the hottest day for 5 months I suspect. If its that temperature when I land back at Heathrow Airport on March 28th (British Airways permitting) I will be mighty relieved, as here in Jaipur it has today reached 38C. I am boiling, and even with the fans on in this internet room I feel like I'm be...