Supposed to leave at 7.30am today for Dharamshala which is a 12 hour journey, but Tim had to wake Shaleem up to make our breakfast and then Gulaam had to pick a “friend” who was taking the journey there too (in the car we had paid for). Finally were on the road at 8.40. Arrived at our destination 13.5 hours later after absolutely hair raising drive through the mountains, along a plain and then through and up and up and up some more mountains. I worked on the basis that Gulaam was over 50 years old and had driven that route [View Full Entry]

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Roller Coaster - one minute I am enjoying myself and the next the whole thing feels a disaster! In spite of telling the bank our plans our debit card failed to work on our last morning in Delhi. Panic! Many hours and a flight later having spoken to our contact in Kashmir who tells us he will see that we can get to a phone to call the bank tomorrow we feel a little better. Then we worry that we are going way over budget. Then we calm ourselves down. Well - we wanted to get out of our comfort zone [View Full Entry]

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We have flown on BA a fair few times and the experience has not always been positive and so we didn't really have any great expectations for our flight. I must say that I like T5 even though it has had some bad reviews. The staff were friendly and helpful and easy to approach. Even the man who cling filmed out backpacks for us was chatting happily to us - half in English and half in Polish but we sort of understood each other. The flight was fantastic. The staff were friendly and helpful and even joked. Flying into Delhi at [View Full Entry]

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Getting ready to leave. Sad in many ways as, you have to admit that Autumn is seriously one of the four best seasons of the year in England. I have left a place that I loved before, but that time I knew that I would never be truly returning. That time my photo's consisted of giraffes, elephant, rhino and huge great stone ruins. This time I know I will be back so instead of excitement mixed with fear and sorrow, I have excitement mixed with fear -SO MUCH BETTER!! Having given up my much loved job I have had some interesting [View Full Entry]

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