Jodhpur is a bit of a nothing town. Once you've seen the blue city and yet another Old Fort, it's basically done! We arrived at breaking dawn after an overnight train, we slept, we woke, we ate, we walked. Visited the Old Fort, saw the views of the blue city. Visited the market, got constantly harassed and tugged at by sleazy men. Ate street side samosas (which we all later got bad stomachs from). I napped while the girls spent hours trying to book cheap but safe...

We pulled into Jaisalmer station after our pretty comfy 18 hour train journey from Delhi. I'm pleased to say it was the nicest train so far. We always prepare ourselves for the hassling tuk tuk and hotel room sellers that await us outside the station gates but Jaisalmer was something else. I was walking in front of the girls and got swarmed in an instant, men shouting "where you go, where you go'"or "tuk tuk" or "you want cheap room". I physically couldn't walk ...

It was good to get out of the big city of Delhi, it felt a bit tourist driven in parts, with the trips and the rickshaws etc, plus I was just waiting for the next person to try to rip us off. Varanasi was going to be real India and that it was. In Lonely Planet, Varanasi is described as "the most blindly colourful, unrelentingly chaotic and unapologetically indiscreet places on earth. A place that takes no prisoners but if you're ready for it, it may just turn ou...

We cleared immigration and picked up our luggage, it was time to walk out into the madness of the airport arrivals. Luckily I had previously booked us a hotel and arranged for an airport pick up so we felt a bit safer knowing we we're looking for someone. There he was, our taxi man holding a sign with our name on. He was a nice enough man so we quickly felt at ease travelling with him, he was teaching us about Delhi as we were driving through the city, answering ...