Dear All, Sorry it has been a wee while but i have been staying in the mountains where they are just getting to grips with the telephone, let alone internet. Since out venture to Jaipur we left for a city called Jodphur, where riding jodphurs come from. My Lonely PLanet travel guide described it as a city where the streets where scented with incense and roses, infact it was a stinking s*** hole where the sewage runs freely down the streets and we had a ...

Dear All, In the past week we have moved further south still from Delhi. After heading to Agra to see the Taj Mahal we then moved onto Ranthamabore Tiger Reserve (by the way gran I now have a mosquito net as we were warned about the little b*****s there). We stayed for two nights in Ranthambore where we went on safari into the jungle but sadly saw no tigers. We saw plenty of deer, waterbirds, monkeys, owl, chipmunks and birds of prey. The jungle was stunnin...

Dear All, Wow well where shall i start. This country really is mental. There are no driving laws and so i have been closed to being squashed on several occassions. We have now left delhi and today we drove to Agra and watched the sun set over the Taj Mahal. Our first few days in Delhi have been a real culture shock....more so than anywhere else i think. The city is in a complete state of poverty and really dirty and smelly and I think we have all had our eyes ...

dear all, this place is absolutelyn bloody mental. sorry bout bad typing but this keyboard is very dodgy. We are all safe and well and having a totally hectic experience. We arrived at 2.00am and drove past donkeys and cows to our hotel. then discovered we could not stay there that night (still dont know why) and so got transferred to the next door hotel. the rooms are very dodgy and our shower is a big plastic bucket with a jug! we have spent most of the tim...