HAPPY NEW YEAR! (Slightly late.. Playing catch-up!) Vital Vitamin D for the body a week on the beaches in India! & Relax! Began our coastal adventure in Mumbai, had ourselves set up in the Travellers Inn, highly recommended... Well... A flight delay (Suprise!) led to us being late for check-in, be warned in India they'd sell your Grandmother if you were late in collecting her from bingo!! Our room had been sold to the next "traveller"... Brilliant! 11pm, t...

A Christmas treat! An up-grade to a "posh" lodge for Christmas complete with swimming pool & A journey to remember!! We set off from the wonderful Jaipur to Jabulpur via Aeroplane, which in true Indian style was delayed! Christmas Eve! Sooo excited, sat having a not so exciting airport breakfast! Arrived in Jabulpur and greeted by "Dumb & Dumber"! Our drivers who were responsible for driving us to our lodgings... First stop, lunch! I was starving &...

The tourist trail.. Golden Triangle! If ticked the Delhi box& was so happy to be on the road.. Agra & The Taj beckons... the time of year means that the days in the north begin with heavy fog, lifting slightly for the rare opportunity for the sun to come out, hazy sunshine followed by more fog in the afternoon & evening.. Cold mornings, cold evenings.. well it is winter, how crazy for more to think that India is always hot! Everywhere! We were luck...

So it began, the Indian Christmas adventure! First stop Delhi.. DELHI... Now, does anyone actually need to visit here!? Culture shock for one so white, blonde, female with blue eyes! Not sure what I had in mind but it certainly wasn't this, it was going to be a long few days waiting for the arrival of my partner in crime! The first thing that hits you as you step off the plane is the smell,a strange mix of incense & burning waste! You soon get used to this ...