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...