I have had THE MOST INCREDIBLE DAY. After only three hours sleep (because of course our early night was called off when Nathan suggested drinks at My Bar - I knew that would happen!) we got up at 5am to catch the 6:14am Bhopal Shatabdi train from New Delhi station to Agra. I've been on trains before in India but they've always been a) 11 hours long and b) downright awful so this quick 2 hour journey complete with a lovely breakfast as standard was a lovely surpri...

Day 2! After breakfast on the roof terrace of the hotel we set off on foot through the bazaar to New Delhi station and got ourselves a bike rickshaw to drive us to Jama Masjid. It was during this trip that I decided I would NEVER drive in Delhi - there are no rules on the road here at all. We're talking 100 cars/motorbikes/pedal rickshaws trying to go around a roundabout all at the same time. We were so close to a bus at one point that I touched it without even ...

I'm in India. Officially. After months and months of talking and planning I'm in Delhi, India and it's bloody fantastic. The flight was an absolute breeze - a 9 hour flight with a quick stop in Brussels, two meals, Midnight in Paris followed by an X-Men marathon and a surprising amount of alcohol to say it was 11am when we starting drinking. Dad's argument was that it was 3:15pm in India so it was totally acceptable to be drinking gin and tonics and red wine....a...