11/1/10 Varanasi We all woke up at about 9am after we had both had a great nights sleep for a change. Alan hadn't slept much but we all got up to discover the train was 1.5 hours delayed so we had another few hours to kill. We chatted and watched the world go by whilst drinking plenty of Chai brought round by the train kitchen staff. We had ordered Indian breakfast the previous evening and that was delivered to us almost hot. It was rice, dahl, some spicy dips a...

8/1/10 Jaipur to Agra We checked out of the hotel having had much better showers after the plumber had called and fixed the pressure. We were met by the rep from the tour company and we told him our thoughts on the tour the previous day. He said he'd pass our comments on and we would not find the same on our next visit....hhmmmm. The questionaire form he gave us only had choices of good, very good or excellent to tick, good ploy eh? We joined Girdhari in the car...

. 6/1/10 Delhi to Jaipur We woke up and got dressed to be ready for the arrival of our driver at 9am. Girdhari, the driver, arrived on time and we got into the car for the five hour drive to Jaipur, his home town in Rajasthan. It took us one and a half hours just to get out of Delhi which was a mass of cars, bikes, rickshaws, auto rickshaws and other vehicles all going in which ever direction they fancied. At one point we were on a four laned motorway with eigh...

3/1/10 Phuket to Delhi (Singapore, Hong Kong) We were collected from the hotel at 6am after we woke at 5am to pack and get ready to go. We had packed and weighed our bags which were about half a kilo over weight so we thought we'd get away with it. The ride to the airport was smooth as there was hardly any traffic about and we arrived with plenty of time to spare. When we pulled up we saw there was a big queue just to get into the terminal building so we joined ...

30/12/09 Koh Phi Phi to Phuket We had a ferry going at 9am to Phuket, Thailands largest island connected to the mainland by a bridge. We were waiting at 8 when the tuk tuk arrived for the journey to the pier. We walked down the pier and got on the very full boat. We travelled out of the port for about twenty minutes and then the boat came to a stop. Noone said anything was wrong but the engine didn't go out of turnover so we thought maybe there was an engine pro...