We are in Udaipur now. We are staying a few days and then flying back to Delhi before going on to Kerela. I have managed to upload photos and will post a few here and also a link to a lot of photos on google. We stayed a few days in Pushkar which was nice but the lake has dried up -- no monsoon rains for a few years. We had a nice room about a kilometre from the centre -- which was good because it meant we had to do at least some walking back and forth every day -- of course, we could have taken a rickshaw but mostly we walked. It is vegan in Pushkar which didn't really matter to us as we are not eating meat anyway -- actually we are not ... read more

Here we are second day in New Delhi ... only 8 hours late .... heavy fog over New Delhi -- had to stay in Amman for 6 hours and when we arrived in New Delhi had to circle the airport for about an hour -- it was about 12:00 p.m. by then -- shouldn't have been fog anymore. Haven't been here for about 26 (or more) years but it stills seems very familiar. Unfortunately, the city is now one huge building site. The pavements are dug up, they are building stadiums, I think -- hard to say -- all sorts of big structures that look like they are being constructed with matchsticks -- for the commonwealth games in September. So it is very dusty, very crowded, very polluted and evidently, very foggy. Micha thinks that there ... read more

As I don't see myself travelling anywhere for the time being, I will have to make do with travels around Israel. We went to Jaffa for a walk -- we timed it badly. The light was failing by the time we arrived so we just wondered around for a short time and managed to take a few photos which I will post here now.... read more

At the end of my stay in Portugal we stayed overnight in Lisbon and spent two days wandering the streets. I was really impressed with Lisbon -- I thought the architecture was amazing and the buildings were all very colorful in pastels and earth tones so I took tons of photos. I found Lisbon to be reasonably priced for a capital city. A lot of the architectecture is very grand -- with many structures being surprisingly big and some of the buildings and monuments have a lot of detail -- sometimes too much but mostly it seems to work. They have these little trams that get very crowded and give the impression that there are lots of tourists which I don't think there is -- I mean, there are tourists but there isn't a crush. Some ... read more

We drove to Lagos from Tavira. There is not much to see along the highway and the main thing to be said is that there isn't much traffic -- I never saw so much as a hint of a traffic jam in this part of the world, despite being here in the middle of the tourist season -- maybe the price of gas is keeping people off the roads. Lagos itself was quite crowded, with good reason, very beautiful location. We went for a walk along the cliff and visited the fort -- obligatory it would seem in every Portuguese town. (luckily I like forts, palaces, castles, etc.) The wind sculptures were nice. The coast has lots of big rock formations and you can walk all along the coast by walking through gaps in the rocks ... read more