Some gadgets are purchased purely out of desire, others are desirable but serve a purpose and others are bought simply because a problem needs to be resolved. Yesterday’s purchase of Frio wallets was definitely made to solve a problem, but I like the geekiness value it has. So what is a Frio wallet? A Frio […] ↓ 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”.
