What a journey! I knew we were facing an epic adventure taking the train to Ahmedabad and then catching a train soon after up to Udaipur but when doing it, we never thought the journey would end! With a race to get to the station for the train for 1.15pm (which we realized when we got on the train should have been 1.40pm after all!) we left over an hour to get there (1/2 hour would usually suffice) but all roads stopped for what we found out soon after was the Pr...

Sorry about the photos - we need to download ours but I haven't worked out how yet!! Dave is making a good recovery so I have sorted out the trains for the next leg of our journey: 7 hour train journey to Ahmedabad, wait 2 hours and then an overnight train to Udaipur. After the hustle and bustle of Mumbia we are looking for to the serenity and peace promised by Udaipur and the central lake. And thank you for the message Irene! Well, I'm off for some more photo t...

After meeting Liz and Gareth (whose wedding we went to a couple of weeks ago) at the airport by chance (on way back from honeymoon!), an emotional goodbye with families and a long delay at the airport we finally left for Mumbai. I was very nervous at first but we seemed to overcome our first trials of people ripping us off by getting a pre-paid taxi and not letting anyone have our receipt until we found the taxi rank we made it to Mumbai (having said this we were...