We arrive back in the City of Joy as Kolkata is known, late in the evening and very much ready for our bed. We are staying in the same...

We fly from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to Kolkata in West Bengal and spend the night there en route to Darjeeling. It’s another early...

‘In this holy city, humanity exists at its most intense. The noise is unceasing, the traffic rages day and night, and pollution sits...

Today we are going to a place called Bundi. This is another of Ravi’s recommendations, we’ve never even heard of Bundi! It’s another long...

It’s very difficult sometimes to put your finger on what it is that makes you like or dislike something, and so it proves to be with...

We’re on a bit of a journey in this blog, visiting a few places on our way to Udaipur. First stop Kumbhalgarh. Our hotel is a couple...

Today we are bound for another of Rajasthan’s famous cities, Jodhpur or the Blue City as it is otherwise known. It’s called the Blue...

The drive from Bikaner is long so we make a couple of breaks in the journey. The first is recommended to us by Mahendra and Bhawna, it...

Bikaner is a city out west near the border with Pakistan, it is surrounded by the Thar, or Great Indian, Desert. This wasn’t on our list...

We specifically want to include Pushkar in our trip because by happy chance it’s the annual Pushkar Mela (or Camel Fair). It’s reputed to...

The village as we drive through looks really interesting, cobbled streets and crumbling buildings sporting faded but still beautiful...

We’re now in a new state, Rajasthan and a new city, Jaipur which is the state’s capital. Jaipur is otherwise known as the Pink City, this...

So… the journey from Dharamshala to Shimla is gruelling. Our driver Sushil, takes a detour to avoid many miles of road widening works...

Our next destination is Dharamshala, home of the Dalai Lama and seat of the Tibetan Government-in-exile. This is in the state of Himachal...

India is a country both of us has visited before - Nick has been lucky enough to have visited the south several times - but it’s so...