Travel to and Varanasi

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May 9th 2010

Published: May 9th 2010

Friday 7 May The days within the weeks are now blending to become one continuous string of days; weekends we have to remind ourselves are upon us and when others around the world are having a weekend, we too have to realise that our journey, especially the planning of it, is curtailed because there are not the people at the other end of the email or phone to help us plan our way forward. So it is... Read Full Entry

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Barry and John

gb2aus01team

At the beginning of 2008 two of us were discussing cars while John was reading his Classic Car magazine and read out an advertisement asking for entrants to take part in the re-run of the greatest and longest endurance rally of all time the 1968 London to Sydney race, which was won by Andrew Cowan in a Hillman Hunter now a classic car. We decided to enter. The rally was due to start in November 2008 from London and finish in Sydney on the 10th December but it never did materialise due to Australian quarantine issues they refused to allow cars to proceed into Oz without a two day �... full info

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Rising sun over the Ganges

The number of boats with onlookers was quite fasinating both Indian visitors as well as foreigners.

A burning Ghat

This is one of the burning Ghats where the bodies are brought to be burnt, but not so early this morning.

Varanasi

From the Ganges.

Temple

This temple had been affected by the high waters of the Ganges, which were low when we were on the river, but by July, the water levels will be 20 feet higher than they are present and the river width will widen by more than a mile in some places.

Our chairs were conjured up from out of no-where. Kind people.

Little and large

This man sort of became our minder for the duration of our stay and organised for our car to have its horn repaired as well as the tyre. He called John his big brother (by at least 20 years!).

Tyre service!

That scooter you see is our little brother going off with our wheel to have the nasty nail we had in it, removed and hole repaired. It took just 20 minutes!

Begging

Begging is endemic in this country and can get you down.

The moslem sector and silk

Varanasi silk is regarded as very high class and we were taken on a tour of the area in Varanais where the silk cloth is made. Within a 100km square area of this city, where the moslems live, each house, some 1000, so we were told, had a weaving loom inside where every member of the family was involved in producing silk fabrics. This is where we saw young and old handling very old and decrepid machinery, which I sure must cause some awful injuries.

Silk making

About 8cm in depth of material is produced each 8 hrs of work!

John with the cows!

Couldn't resist this one! I had asked for the bathroom on arriving at a pizzeria, and got shown it via the cowshed - the comment being that was the fresh milk source for our milkshakes etc! The pizzas were good though.

15th May 2010

Annie Smith
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You still seem to be have an awinspiring trip, India is so different from the top to the bottom it's as if they are different countries. I still can wait each time for your wonderful story I sit at the computer drinking in your wonderful tale. Keep safe , Love Annie

16th May 2010

gb2aus01team
Barry and John

Varanasi to Chennai
Annie, love your comments. Keep em coming! Blog going on shortly about this last week. Amazing, destabilizing and frightening at times on these roads. But car to be shipped next week and we are here in Chennai safe and sound for the time being. Hope all well with you too, and hope that family of yours in Sydney will be able to come along and meet us when we arrive. I think we are sort of still on schedule. Yours aye, Barry

13th June 2010

majid khan
majid khan

Why do you visit India, if it is to find faults with everything there, nitwit? Visitors like you are not welcome in India at all.

15th June 2010

gb2aus01team
Barry and John

India
Every country has its good and bad. If you cared to read it all you would have seen that we found India fascinating and exciting and there were some fabulous sights to see and experience. That said, our journey by road exposes things that may not be seen by ordinary visitors and our experiences reflect that.

14th July 2010

gb2aus01team
Barry and John

Hi Annie
Just to let you know in case your son can get there, we will be at the Hornsby RSL all being well at 1300 hours next Sunday. Love to meet him there. Hope you are OK. Barry

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