Homeward Bound - The Final Days Our stopover in Doha, Qatar was planned not only to break up the flight home and give us a chance to recover from the rigours of India but also to provide a taste of the Middle East. It didn't disappoint...... As we came in to land we had an excellent aerial view of Qatar - it seemed like almost all of it - flat desert with a few small towns of low buildings then Doha, which is very much 21st century - built on reclaimed land and...

All packed and checked out.....we're coming home.....just one more blog to come !

The Steamy South Yet another flight, albeit a short internal between Delhi and Mumbai (Bombay). What happened to the I don't like flying chap? Still it was very clean and efficient but the heat as we got off was a bit of a shock. It's unseasonably hot (about 40 degrees) even for the locals and the humidity is high, still at least I'm not the only one sweating now. And after six months of no real problems I had to check in with a doctor, who came to the hotel roo...

At last the words to go with the 3 photo albums: Incredible India, Further Adventures in. India and Tiger Tails and Taj Mahal. "This is India"...Incredible!? After our previous group tour experiences in China, Vietnam & Australia, for India we decided to book something a bit more luxurious and chose one called The Great Indian Explorer. It promised a taste of India's past, visiting palaces, forts and temples plus some very interesting and rather grand 'he...

Thailand Travels So many people have been to Thailand, several many times so we were interested to see what it was all about. The first two weeks we really followed the tourist route, although travelling the reverse of the regular back packer. With hindsight our decision to 'go with the flow' was perhaps a mistake as the popular places were not perhaps what we would have chosen after more research. Our first stop, Phuket was another big island which unexpected...