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...

Mellow Malaysia With our flight from Penang to Phuket booked for 9th February we had just 6 days in Malaysia - not long enough to explore properly, (we stayed just 3 nights in each of Kuala Lumpur and Penang), but it seemed quite relaxed - not nearly so hectic as other Asian countries and the people very pleasant and friendly. That also means that this blog will be fairly short - especially as the weather was warm and sunny ......both hotels had nice pools so we...