Blogs from Chandigarh, Punjab, India, Asia - page 4

A short entry this time. Chandigarh is the Indian equivalent to Milton Keynes - Roundabouts, grid system "Boulevards" (although nothing near to the french meaning!) parks and a man made lake!....made us quite homesick!....actually, have been feeling quite emotional and missing everyone lots recently :( Dan - Yeah Milton Keynes it was, as I was walking down the street I suddenly thought I had woken up from a dream and was walking back to work from Tesco's at lunchtime, then all of a sudden a little Indian fellow jumped out of the bush and said "Hello my friend, come see my shop, I have many things" "Mujey cuchi nahin shar he yai baba" I grumbled.......(I don't want anything brother) Nic - So as you may be telling from our introduction to this place, we weren't particularly ... read more

It had to come sometime, but by anyone's estimation this is too soon. Returning from Mcleod Ganj on a long but good bus ride, we pulled into Chandigarh to find ourselves in a great room. Nauseous and unimpressed by Indian night life, we turned in to get up early for the next day. All was well, but with storm clouds on the horizon. It came out during the night that Lucy had had enough; the only choice was whether I'd join her right away on the return to England. The Nek Chand rock garden the next morning was odd in all ways. Mcleod Ganj has such a heavy Tibetan refugee population that we'd gotten unfamiliar with the staring ways of India's youth; at the Nek, the long, smouldering looks returned. Unfortunately, they were given entirely by ... read more

I was just reading my previous entries and laughing my head off. I hope you all enjoy this blog as much as I do. Could I be any more dramatic? I bet I could but I'll spare you!! Am I the worst speller ever? That's even with me asking Laura how to spell every other word. I noticed I've told you the same thing twice sometimes but that's how you'll know it's important. I can't even begin to cover all the spectacular things that happen in a day but if I ever come home I'll have some wonderful stories to tell (key words- if I ever come home) How's your day? Mine was perfect. Laura and I had our driver take us shopping. We lucked out and found the BEST SPA EVER!!! It was like a ... read more

Since I last wrote from Jaipur I've lost like 7lbs, maybe I'm exaggerating a little but I'll tell you one thing and you can take this one to the bank, food poisoning is AWFUL!! It was a 3 hour drive from Jaipur to Pushkar and I was deteriorating the entire way. By the time we got there I couldn't even hold my head up and I had the worst stomach pains of my life. Needless to say I didn't get to see much of the Blue city as they call it, mostly just the bed in my hotel room. A doctor had to come and see me at the hotel, he spoke perfect engish and seemed to have a clue so I took the medications he prescribed for me, a course of antibiotics and some antispasmotics ... read more

well the train wasn't so bad, and I managed to sleep both ways. 2 safaris and no tigers, so the hotel owner took pity on me and took me for a night drive along the road. Result!! A stunning tiger crossed the road right infront of us. He strolled across the road , not phased by our prescence. He was magnificent. Sadly as it was so dark, the photo didn't come out, although with some work, maybe? Other than this we saw mostly deer, monkeys, peacocks and a few elephants. I think I was spoilt in Africa last year. The stats (you can take the gaccountant out of the country, but not the accountant out the girl!!!) tell me you're looking at this, feel free to add a comment, it would be good to hear from ... read more