Category India
Week 28 – Random Acts of Kindness
3rd to 9th of March, 2014 Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. – Scott Adams (1957) Creator Of Dilbert Comic Strip Week 28 found the Sabretoothed Chickens couchsurfing in Greater Noida, about one hour from Delhi. Our host Rishi works as […]
Week 27 – Chilling in Mussoorie
24th February – 2nd March 2014 A room in the clouds This week we planned to slow down and relax, up among the off season quiet of Mussoorie, a Hill Station about three hundred kilometres north-east of Delhi and in the Himalayan foothills. We arrived on the Sunday, in the wheezing bus from Dehradun railway […]
Week 26 – Fantastic Five
Monday 17th – Sunday 23rd of February, 2014 Delhi Belly Unfortunately although soldiering on this week, we were all still getting over various levels of stomach upset. Although we had definitely acquired things before Delhi, it was fun to label it Delhi Belly. It was our first real bout of family illness since our episode […]
Week 25 – Halfway Day
10th – 16th February 2014 The second half of our week-long stay in Bikaner was the flipside to the first: we shifted out to a single room house lent to us by Ranjeev, a Bikaner couchsurfing host who dwells nearby in the same quiet eastern residential suburb. Far from the bustle and railway horns of […]
Week 24 – Barren to Lush
3rd – 9th February 2014 Goodbye Desert Dreaming I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams…― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince This morning Graham explored the Allure or wall walk on the ramparts of the Sonar […]
Week 23 – Of Marble Rooms and Silky Dunes
27th January – 2nd February 2014 We strolled up in the dreamy lake side calm of Udaipur, where high on a hill overlooking the old man-made Lake Pichola, and surrounded by a rim of mountains, is the City Palace, that echoes with the memories of twenty-three generations of Mewar Maharanas of Udaipur. Since 1559, this place […]
Week 22 – The Taj
20th – 26th January 2014 Week 22 sees Graham and Prunella (now in their fifteenth year of marriage) fulfil a long held, romantic dream to stand together before The Jewel of India – the Taj Mahal. The Taj was comissioned in 1631 by the then Emporer Shah Jahan to house the body of his third […]
Week 21 – Varanasi to Agra
13th- 19th January 2014 The Indian Microcosm Varanasi. A melting pot of India in one city, so they say. Week 21 and the Sabretoothed Chickens’ Tour train arrives at Varanasi Junction. Well they’re right so far: the train arrives about half a kilometre short of the station and waits for half an hour. Some people […]
Week 20 – Better Late Than Never
6th – 12th January 2014 Week 20 would see us say a sad goodbye to all our artist friends at the Nagpur festival, have a luxury break and Safari at Pench National Park, explore the exquisite temples of Khajuraho and move onwards to Varanasi. Closing Ceremony Our Couch Surfer friend Deepak had led us through […]
Week 19 – Couch Surfing into India
30th December 2013 – 6th January 2014 A Chilled Out New Year After a week of social events, sightseeing and catching up with our friends in Aundh, it was time for us to move on. Having transferred over to the small but modern apartment of a Pune Couchsurfing host, Aniruddah (Ani), we welcomed a chance […]
Week 18 – Festivities with friends
23rd – 29th December 2014 Ancestral Village Day 124 started with comforting cornflakes and warm milk in the hospitality of Mangul and Henant’s home. Today we would be visiting Henant’s home village, his family farm and his middle school. We were impressed to learn that Henant and his father are still deeply involved in their […]
Week 17 – They say it was in India…
16th – 22nd December 2014 Some days are better than others There are days on the road which can change your perceptions totally. Arriving in Bangkok for the fourth time in our travelling career, we had braced ourselves for another two days of battling through the traffic, noise, muggy heat and sheer scale of the […]
