With the countdown clock clicking beyond the ‘1 day left’ point it was time for me to get online and check ourselves in. A simple task designed to speed up the time we need to spend at the airport tomorrow morning, meaning all that is left to do is drop off the bags and wait […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Let just start by saying that this is flipping hilarious. I wasn’t sure at first but after a few episodes it had me in stitches of laughter. Bad Karma is a series of circa 10 minute videos created by Monkeetime and hosted on YouTube and declares itself as the anti-guide to backpacking in India, or […] ↓ 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…
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…
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.