It has been said that Delhi is like London on speed - that's why we left it until the end of our travels in India, and we're pleased that we did. We had just 3 days there and really enjoyed it. We decided to spend the first 2 days just walking around the area where our hotel was, through the stalls and down to Connaught Place. We arrived early in the morning and our 5.00GBP a night room was not ready, so they took us to a much nicer hotel and gave us a room free ...

I will warn you now, this is going to be quite a long blog and bits of it may gross you out! I shall start with the train journey. The train was only 1 hour late this time, and it was in the early hours of the morning, so not too hot. Whilst standing on the platform watching the rats running around in all the poo (as the toilets are just a hole dropping straight onto the tracks) I turned around to find a huge bull sauntering past me on the platform, giving me ...

We have spent the last 2 days in Kanpur. Our 6 hour afternoon train journey turned into a 5 hour delay waiting at Agra train station, as the arrival time kept getting put back little by little. Due to this we had missed our 'slots' on the train route so had many further delays making us just over 7 hours late, so our free pick up was not there as it was nearly 1am! To begin with we had the 6 birth to ourselves on the train, then we were joined by 2 army men carry...

Well, I've already done the blog today, but it did not save, so here goes again!We are in Agra, as no trip to India would be complete without a visit to the Taj Mahal.We arrived yesterday on the train, and found baboons outside the room at our hotel!We then arranged for a rickshaw to take us to visit Agra Fort and to see marble tables etc being made in the traditional way (the way that the Taj Mahal was made). The fort was great, and really well preserved.We sp...

We have been in Udaipur for the last 6 days and I think this is probably my favourite place in Rajesthan, as it has a bit of everything. The bus journey here was ok. There was no air con and no toilet, but we did get a private double cubicle. The bus was slightly taller than a usual coach, so down one side there were double seats and above it were the double compartments. This did feel like you were climbing into a cupboard to sleep, but there was enough heig...