Dear blogreaders, this will probably be our last blog from India as we are now in the final 7 days of our trip. However that doesn't mean that we don't have any news for you..... We ended up spending 8 nights in McLeod Ganj during which time we managed to do not an awful lot but met some nice people and hung out in some nice cafes and restaurants. The weather there is pretty damp and it is so high up in the foothills of the Himalayas that sometimes the clouds dr...

Dear blogreaders After our last update we spent a couple more days in Shimla. We even trekked the 4.5 km to the old Viceregal Lodge. Its described in the Lonely Planet as a cross between Harry Potters Hogwarts and something else that we can't remember at this moment. It is built in the Scottish Baronial style, with lots of towers and impressive balconies. We went on an extended tour of the Lodge (now the college for advanced studies!) and walked through a total ...

Dear blogreaders After our last update we spent a couple more days in Shimla. We even trekked the 4.5 km to the old Viceregal Lodge. Its described in the Lonely Planet as a cross between Harry Potters Hogwarts and something else that we can't remember at this moment. It is built in the Scottish Baronial style, with lots of towers and impressive balconies. We went on an extended tour of the Lodge (now the college for advanced studies!) and walked through a total ...

Dear blogreaders We eventually managed to pull ourselves away from the beach at Arambol and ended up back in Panaji for a couple of days, after which we caught an overnight bus to Mumbai. From Mumbai we flew to Chandigarh in the North of India (above Delhi). The one thing that we both wanted to see in Chandigarh (there isn't a whole lot else really) was the fantasy garden by Nek Chand. He built the garden in the jungle and made people, animals etc from thrown ...

Dear blogreadersWe caught our flight from Fort Cochin to Goa successfully a few days ago and finally made our way to Panajim which is the capital of Goa. Its pretty hot here with very high humidity so we haven't had much energy to do a lot but we did visit a spice plantation and had a little wander around Panajim itself. The other night we went to a restaurant that was actually in the Lonely Planet guide only to find we were the only tourists there (its off seaso...