Leaving Rishikesh didn't quite go to plan! We were supposed to share a vikram with Ghopal to Haridwar, so we could avoid an unsafe bus driver whizzing us down the mountain chichanes; Liz didn't enjoy the bus journey up that much and was dreading the journey back [the buses are bone rattling here and held together by sellotape which rotted in the 1980s!] So after our last early morning yoga session, Ghopal had flagged down a guy, bartered with him to take him &a...

On the May 1st (Day 10) we made our way to Rishikesh. A five minute vikram journey to the bus station from our huts on the Ganges for about a pound followed by a one hour bus journey for about twenty five pence each! Clare was with us here for the first few days before making her way back home to Bury St Edmonds after her refreshing two week break from tending to the poorly, sick and bad. I think she has enjoyed her holiday in India. Am I envious of her returning...

Another early morning RadioCab found us boarding an Express train to Haridwar, a holy Hindu city where pilgrims flock to to bathe in the fast-flowing Ganges (Ganga). We checked into our bamboo huts at Bhaj-Govindam located right on the bank of the Ganges, with our very own private ghat and garden. To do the tourist bit, that evening, we ambled down to the 'Har-Ki-Pairi' Ghat were the crowds assemble every evening to release their floating offerings onto the Gang...

On day five at some ungodly hour in the morning we made the rush hour taxi journey to the New Delhi station, with our taxi guy beeping with one hand and picking his nose with the other, in time to make the Bhopal Shatabdi Express train to Agra. Delhi Train Station and all the stations we've visited since have really been something else! Before you've even pulled up in the taxi, dozens of red shirted railway porters pounce on your taxi from nowhere. Upon paying th...

Finally, I've managed to get around to writing the first entry in my blog! Nameste (Hello), it has been a busy eight days since I touched down into Delhi International Airport last Tuesday morning, but so far it has been great! I'm writing this on my phone with my little bluetooth keyboard whilst sat in our riverfront hotels' private bathing ghat on the River Ganges, in Haridwar. Mmm.. What an amazing afternoon! The sun is shining down whilst children play in the...