Hi everyone Sorry its been a few days - no internet!! We are now up north in Himachal Pradesh in a mountain village called Bagsu. We have loads to catch up on so I have updated some pictures of the last two weeks. Yesterday we came out to write the blog but after discovering that we could not open any of our photographs which we had put on a USB we were rather low to say the least. Luckily all was resolved today - the computer which the pictures were downloaded...

Hello all I thought I had better enter my first blog (cant leave it all to Tam). We have made an agreement whereby Tam will write the constructive travel progress, and I shall write the less responsible tit tat and stories. So India, from my view it is a dirty smelly, polluted, and far too populated! Otherwise it's great. My immodium tablets I'm pleased to report are still intact, much to my astonishment. I suppose I have to get straight in and provide a toilet ...

Well as my dear sister already has written to me and said I may not stick to the travel plan I stated in the last blog and she was right! We have not done any of the detailed. We actually went to Agra on the 6th October. We met our driver Seni at 07.30am, after five minutes he stopped the car and suggested we go to Agra first, We agreed to go along with that. We got to the outskirts of Delhi where seni stopped several times, opening his bonnet! The fan belt had ...

Firstly - if anyone else asks or says to 'oh but you look like an Indian!!' I'm going to .......... Well suggestions for an answer would be welcome! Well today ended up being a day of travel planning for the next two weeks. We went to New Delhi this morning in a tuk tuk which was a bit hair raising to say the least! After a visit to the Tourist information place we have booked and planned the next two weeks. We ignorantely did not think about the profound impac...

Well Heathrow was a breeze much less stressful than Birmingham airport believe it or not. Flight was good, 7 hours long so not too bad I think its after 7-8 hours that a journey becomes traumatic. We landed at our time 4.50am which was 9.50 Dehli time. The heat hit immediately but I did smile when I looked up and the skies were blue and no clouds. We were meant to be picked up by our hotel but as I thought no one turned up so we got a taxi. As we drove from th...