Got up at 8.00am and ate our usual breakfast of cornflakes, eggy bread, mango juice and coffee (we steal our bananas for when we need a snack!). After a quick session on the internet to make sure we had a bed in Agra, we headed, with Sam, to the train station and aprehensively bought our tickets to Agra (375 Rupees each). Following this we headed to Connaught Place where Sam booked her flight to Nepal. We then tried to tried to get further bus and train info f...

Early start to go on our city tour, along with Sam, a fellow Brit from Newcastle who is towards the end of her 11 month world tour. We set off from the hotel with our driver at 9.30am and were promptly stopped at the top of the Main Bazar by the New Delhi Traffic Police who gave our driver a ticket for driving the wrong way out of the bazar and not wearing a uniform! After the short stop we headed into Old Delhi which is a muslim quarter and is just as bustling ...

We woke up today feeling fully refreshed after a good nights sleep. We had our first taste of an indian breakfast and found it not too bad - we got an omelette, cornflakes bread and bananas (which we saved for later!) After a very refreshing and much much needed shower we headed out towards Connaught Place and the Imperial Hotel where we were meeting Uncle Johns Friend, Anu. After a quick walk through the park we found the gorgeous Imperial Hotel! After waitin...

We have finally made it! After the tearful goodbyes at Heathrow and the plane delayed cos the food wasnt on (obviously the most important thing!) we finally took to the sky at 6.25pm on Sunday. Good flight but struggled to sleep, not sure if we were too excited or just uncomfortable! Had our first curry of the trip on board! We arrived in Delhi at 6.55 am and cleared customs easily! Thank God! Our backpacks also made it safely! Met our taxi man easily in the ...