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With another 10 years until retirement I have decided to take a 10 week sabbatical, starting on 26th January until 5th April 09. G has only managed 6 weeks off work so I am starting without him! I am leaving for Australia with a longstanding friend Sheelagh and after 2 days in Singapore, travel to Melbourne to stay with our mutual friend Barbara. I then plan to meet G in Delhi on 22nd February and we are hoping to train and bus around Rajasthan and then onto Agra and Varanassi, bussing it to Katmandu and then back to Delhi and on to the Keralla backwaters in South India. Then we return via Delhi and back to London and back to porridge. This site is a great opportunity to share experiences with my family and friends
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By CathyBr
April 3rd 2009
Periyar to Kovallam Asia » India » Kerala » Trivandrum
We forgot to add that at the end of our backwater trip we learned that Mr Old was 72! Off to the bus station to catch a bus to Periyar Animal Sanctuary, a bus that, having glass in front and rear screens, had none elsewhere. Fine for the breeze but not so for the fine dust. At the bus stand (station to us) a very helpful chap with crutch and wonky leg was selling lottery tickets. Not that we needed the lottery tickets but his advice as to which bus was helpful as the writing on the bus was not written [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 3rd 2009 | 99 Views | [diary=387234]


By CathyBr
April 2nd 2009
Kochi to Allepey, Again! Asia » India » Kerala » Allepey
We don't know what story you made around the last photographs but this is the two and a half hours of typing (pretty much) which should have gone with them. New Delhi, new hotel, new day and awoke a bit disorientated to a Chinook coming in. I knew we were close to the airport but then realized it was the ceiling fan doing its stuff from the night before. Our flight to Kochi was a two-parter, a trip which we thought was going to be by road as the taxiing to the runway took 25 minutes. Now, there are many rules [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 2nd 2009 | 95 Views | [diary=386956]


By CathyBr
March 30th 2009
Kerala Asia » India » Kerala » Allepey
If you are interested we have added 4 photographs to the last entry. And so to continue. Having spent 2 and half hours typing the continuation it seems it wasn't saved so here are some photographs and you can make up the story round them! [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 30th 2009 | 101 Views | [diary=386054]

Pretty pink and peppermint
Kochi Backstreet
Chinese fishing nets

More prayer flags
More prayer flags
Can't have enough in the hope the memory cards are found
Leaving behind the mountain butterflies and bamboo, the bamboo as thick as my leg and, tapering, rising thirty feet before looping on itself and, still tapering, ending at nothing, like a horse carriage whip, we caught something of a taxi back to Pokhara. I say something as we felt sure it was a chap taking his mother back to Pokhara and we paid to ride. Still, he was a careful driver and without a word we got back in one piece. Arriving back at the cottages we found everything locked and dogs gone. No sign of life, so a new hotel [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 25th 2009 | 122 Views | [diary=384710]

Buddhist Statue
Candy floss at the cremation ghat
Kathmandu MOT pass

In addition to my camera card getting a virus, so too did I. Cathy thought I might have had Erythema multiforme with target lesions. Which was interesting! It interested her as she hasn't seen many of them but she now thinks they were sand-fly bites as I haven't died. I have however had a stinker of a cough and cold, even taking to my bed, which postponed the start of our trekking by a day. The trek started with a 1 hour taxi ride from Pokhara to Nayapul which in itself was an event. Off we set in a rattling Suzuki [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 20th 2009 | 66 Views | [diary=383062]


By CathyBr
March 13th 2009
Pokhara Asia » Nepal » Pokhara
Although written in Pokhara, this goes back to our last day in India. Having bought bus tckets from Varanasi to Kathmandu we found at the eleventh hour that there were border problems and that it would be better to fly into Kathmandu. Our hotel was already full so we had to look elsewhere and headed out to buy the airline tickets the office of which was just down the road from a hotel that had accommodation. By tuc tuc we headed out of town. The ride was, for us, a first. In all the tuc tuc trips we have had and [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 13th 2009 | 88 Views | [diary=381340]


By CathyBr
March 12th 2009
Nepal Asia » Nepal » Kathmandu » Thamal
Loads to talk about but owing to a slight hiccup, basically the electricity is restricted to 4 hours a day and a change of plan in having to fly to Kathmandu rather than bus it, we haven't at the moment got the facility to write much now. However, here are some photographs to go on with and if we cannot write tomorrow, 13th March, it will be a week or so before we can do anymore as we shall be walking the highlands of the Himalaya! [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 12th 2009 | 67 Views | [diary=381102]

The Monkey Temple
Monkey on Temple
Prayer Flags

By CathyBr
March 9th 2009
Agra to Varanasi Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh » Varanasi
Whilst waiting for our train on Platform 2 out of Agra, another arrived on Platform 3 behind us to a complete mele. Everyone rushed and jumped on to the still moving train, like squeezing a cork into a champagne bottle. Three women getting off were squeezed through a mangle of peopleAnd blown out like laughing chaff. Well, they appeared to be laughing, as others, still wanting to get on, were launching their bundles, followed by themselves through the emergency exit window, in order to get at least a seat for the long journey to wherever they were going. We arrived in [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 9th 2009 | 80 Views | [diary=380184]

Bathing
Busy ghat
Memories?

By CathyBr
March 6th 2009
Taj Mahal Asia » India » Uttar Pradesh
After breakfast we went to see and savour one of India's iconic landmarks. Paying our 750Rs each we entered via the South Gate, mere steps from our hotel, though not until we had passed under the security arch and search. "Body ok but please look in bag". I was aware they had said no tripods but the tiny 4 inch collapsible one I had in the pocket of my bag I am sure would have been no problem. Oh it was. As was the book I had in my bag(no reading) head torch( no torches) cable from camera to computer ( [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 6th 2009 | 86 Views | [diary=379318]

View from our hotel
Bridge Walk
Flotsam

By CathyBr
March 4th 2009
Night Train Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur
The train was due to leave at 23.15 and we were deposited by hotel car at the station at 22.45. Over the bridge to platform 2, where the Jodhpur Express was awaiting departure. Or rather as indeed most of it was. That is, all but our AC3 ( air conditioned 3 tier bunk sleeper) carriage. We weren't alone in waiting for said carriage, both tourists and locals alike. There was a sleeper carriage with names posted at its entrance but not ours. 23.15 came and went . There were near empty “general” carriages but we weren't allowed in them. The reason? [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 4th 2009 | 80 Views | [diary=378733]




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