Everywhere in the old city you go, there are plenty of places to stay; and each one has a sign inviting you to watch Octop**** Udaipur was where most of this James Bond was filmed (Ing was very happy to point out that all the train scenes were done in her home town of Peterborough, so let's not get too excited!). If you ever find yourself here, walk the streets of the town, seeing the all the palaces here and just keep your eyes open and try and remember little...

Cooking Classes After having arrived in a city, we always have a little stroll in the neighbourhood and see what's what and get a feel for the place. It was while we were wondering the maze like back streets of our old city neighbourhood that we stumbled across a place to do some cooking classes. "This could be fun. Let's have a little lookie-see". The class, a little later that afternoon, had eight of us watching our mistress and assistant cook up t...

The high priest of dentistry is what we will remember of Mumbai (or one of the things. The next door fire station having early morning parade - hick, bar, hick, hick bar hick, stomp stomp stomp - is another). For a few nights now, the pain in my back molar was unbearable. I needed a few painkillers just too dull it enough to get through the night for some sleep. But it became ever worse. There was no use fooling myself now. Painkillers only hid the problem, they ...

It took 90mins to get from the airport to the hotel because traffic was bad! But Indian drivers have a fantastic spatial awareness in the traffic. Any little gap, on any side will do. It was while we were hurtling through crowded Mumbai traffic, that we devised the simple rules all road user must all conform too. Two legs is bettered by any wheeled vehicle; bikes are bettered by anything more than two wheels, motorbikes and rickshaws fight it out together; where...

This was it! We were finally leaving Bangkok; and the airport. Since we had been in SE Asia we had managed to go through, or come to, this airport SEVEN times. Bye-bye Bangkok. Hello(gulp) a whole new Indian world!