Most of the planning and preparation for this trip has been going really well but we still had one area of concern: the diabetes medical kit. Today we decided to sort that one out so we could relax a little more. As a little background, after the last trip where we used very, very little […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well actually, I haven’t. In fact, just the idea of it sounds scary after receiving so many spam emails over the years. The last post talked about our medication options for Malaria and once I decided on which one we’d go for it was time to get hold of some. Why not wait to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Whilst most precautionary medicines required for far-flung foreign travel are inoculations unfortunately for prevention of Malaria you still have to take oral medicines. There’s a few questions you need to get answers when researching Malaria: - Does Malaria exist where I’m going? - Is there enough risk to require tablets? - Am I likely to suffer side effects? […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s only now, with less than 7 weeks to go, that our route plan has been finalised. Well, as finalised as a trip to India could ever be, especially in monsoon season. There’s been quite a few changes: we’ve completely changed our plan from going to Ladakh (next time eh?); we’ve change the route from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since the last post we’ve been not-so-patiently waiting for the return of our Visas. As the visa applications were handed in at the application centre in Victoria they had effectively been fully checked and approval was a 99% certainty. I wasn’t therefore too worried that we wouldn’t get our visas but nevertheless I don’t like […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had an appointment to hand in my visa applications last Friday and my experience was very good. Simple, quick and very professional staff too. Now, whilst I haven’t got my visas yet the lady at the visa office thought everything would be absolutely fine and that gave me the reassurance I wanted. Hopefully late […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been delaying the purchase of the travel insurance for one good reason, Diabetes. I did a quick travel insurance quote straight after Amy was diagnosed with Diabetes and was horrified at the cost, which had risen from £85 back in 2009 to nearly £300 this time. Not being able to put it off much […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Booking trains for the last trip was a breeze (http://big-cats-and-holy-ghats.winchcombe.org/post/Booking-Trains.aspx). All you had to do was to figure where you wanted to go; use erail.in to check on train availability; book the train using www.irctc.co.in. The only tricky part was that if you had an international credit card you had to select the Axis payment […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now that we’ve (pretty much) decided which route we are going to take from Delhi to Mumbai I thought I’d start looking at hotels. Naturally finding a place in Delhi was the first thing to do so I started thinking about which area to stay in. We’ve stayed in three different places in Delhi before, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve just completed the map of our proposed route using Google Maps and a fair bit of jiggery-pokery. Come on, you didn’t really think I’d do a simple map did you? Before we go you can view a static image, or you can see an automated version but whilst we’re on the trip you’ll be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the last few months I’ve been checking out the flight costs, waiting for the right time to buy. Like last time I had decided where to go – Ladakh originally of course – and knew that I would need to fly into New Delhi.
After months of research about visiting the Himalayan region of Ladakh – where the greet you with “Juley” – we’ve abandoned that idea in favour of the forthcoming trip from Delhi to Mumbai, a land where they greet you with “Namaste”.
