Bangkok: 3-7 March 2011 Our convoluted route to Thailand from India via Hong Kong passed without any issue, mainly just boredom and lack of sleep. There's absolutely nothing to do in Chennai airport (except swat flies!) for 6 hours between 9pm and 3am! We arrived into Bangkok in the late afternoon of the 3rd with a thunderstorm hot on our heels, but were safely inside our hotel before the first raindrops fell, the first rain we've seen on our trip - oh the novel...

Goa 2. 21st - 28th Feb Our time in Goa has come to an end and despite Sue's persistently upset tummy, we're ready to leave. Cabin Fever hasn't set in yet, but we're feeling tanned, relaxed and ready to start exploring again. We've been pretty lazy during the last week, a typical day would go something like: 7am: Woken by the Dawn Chorus in full swing. Like everything in India, the birds are noisy too! 7:30am: Drift off to sleep again. 9:30am: Wake up properl...

Goa - 14th Feb to 20th Feb (...tbc) Hi everyone, thanks for all your emails and messages. We hope you are as entertained by the blog as we are by the random comments we are receiving!! So we headed back temporarily to Delhi to catch a quick 2 ½ hour flight to Goa. The flight was good (GoAir), no delays. We arrived in Goa and had a hairy 20 minutes or so wondering if our hotel transfer was actually going to show. There seemed to be loads of people with name car...

Udaipur to Delhi - 11th - 14th Feb We left Jaipur on the 11th for the drive to Udaipur, stopping at Chittorgarh en route to see the fort and a couple of temples there. The fort itself isn't that impressive, but like some of the others we've seen the location more than compensated, being perched on the top of a cliff overlooking the city. We stopped at a Jain temple there as well, with it's own ornately decorated tower - a very worthwhile detour. Udaipur i...

Hello there, I'm glad to report that we are back in the land of the living and while we're still having to take it easy with the food, we have been out and about and covered quite a bit of ground since our last update. We hope this one is not too long for you. First off, we checked out of Varanasi (having not seen the Ganges), taking the train back west to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal. A few words on riding the trains: There are several different classes which,...