Hi All, Sorry it has been so long since we last wrote, but it has been a hectic week and we haven't had chance to get on the internet. This means that this is the first of five blogs we are going to write today...so pleae check back in an hour if they are not all up here yet. So as we said last time the flight back was all a bit hurried and last minute. Unfortunately we choose the day of all the storms to fly so we landed in Frankfurt a couple of hours late an...

Hi All, So after settling up at our hotel in Rishikesh (which involved Gareth getting on the back of one of the hotel staff's scooters to go to a hotel in another part of town so he could pay by card...I am very glad I wasn't the one who went to pay) we headed up to Mussoorie. Mussoorie is a Raj era hill station delicately perched on top of a 6000ft ridge in the foothills of the Himalayas. It is popular with Indian city dwellers who come up here in summer to esc...

Hey Guys, So after a lift to the Airport, a flight to Munich, a five hour wait in Munich Airport, a flight to Delhi, a taxi to Nizamuddin Station, a train to Haridwar and a one hour very cold autorickshaw ride we finally arrived in Rishikesh. Rishikesh is the self appointed "Capital of Yoga" and sits along the sacred River Ganges. We got a really nice room in the Hotel we wanted, the New Bhandari Swiss Cottage which sits on the High Bank away from the ...