Thurs. 19th May...It's been an eventful few days since the last upload..Unfortunately, with Songhi's days being fully occupied with appointments it was difficult to get about and do much sightseeing around Ranikhet...We did take advantage of the extra daylight in the evenings though, with a few forest walks to Col. Ram Singh's house off the main road to the village of Chaubattia..We were also fortunate enough to catch up with his son (also retd. Colonel from 4th...

27th. April (Wednesday)..Arrived in Almora by taxi at around midday after a tiring and somewhat frustrating bus journey from Delhi to Nainital which turned out to be a ten hour journey against the mention of six hours on the "Make my Trip" website...Probably a website we would not recommend or use again as this has been our second bad experience with booking through them...Unfortunately their reviews are not much to go by..It will be interesting to se...

Thurs.31st. & Fri. 1st. March...We departed Chandigarh station at our scheduled departure time of 1120hrs. for the five hour journey and arrived at New Delhi around 1640hrs...Once again we found the journey time flew by, as Songhi & I got chatting with a cheerful group of families from Surat in Gujarat who were on their way home from a holiday in Dharamsala & Manali..Typically, they were intrigued to hear me speak hindi and my childhood days in Indi...

Tues. 15th March...Arrived in Amritsar around 0800hrs. and were fortunate enough to be allowed an early check in at the CJ International Hotel in the heart of town...The hotel is wonderful value for money with a great & almost uninterrupted view of the city landmark "The Golden Temple" from the terrace....No breakfast this morning, so the first thing on our minds was a good punjabi brunch after we had freshened up...We found Vishra's restaurant th...

"The adventure begins"....Songhi & I departed Delhi at 1600hrs,(an hour and 35mins. later than our scheduled departure time) from platform 9 on the Himsager Express (the longest train journey on the Indian Railways Network) "What a way to start this 2 month trip".....we settled into our 3 tier cabin shared with (49 & 50) for the 47hr. journey down to Ernakulam Station (Cochin) in Kerala.....Songhi's happy, as she associated herself ...