{"id":2,"date":"2010-01-29T16:51:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:51:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-08-29T08:46:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T07:46:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/","title":{"rendered":"About This Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:10px;\">\nto our blog about 2011&#8217;s trip to India. After our trip in 2009 we couldn&#8217;t wait to get back to India, to visit another part of a country we&#8217;ve all grown to love.<\/p>\n<p>Last time saw us flying into and out of Delhi and having a car\/driver chauffeur us around for 10 days before we grew braver and did our own thing. The driver also took care of the hotels, making it a very easy introduction for us all. If you&#8217;re interested to read about 2009&#8217;s trip then have a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/big-cats-and-holy-ghats.winchcombe.org\">Big Cats and Holy Ghats blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time it&#8217;s different and it&#8217;s all down to us. We&#8217;re flying in Delhi and out of Mumbai and we&#8217;ll take in a route of nearly 2700 miles, virtually all by train, including 3 overnight trips and 5 day time ones. Suitcases are banned as it&#8217;s so much easier getting on a train with a <a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/?p=73\">rucksack<\/a> than with suitcase in each hand.\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Using This Site<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:10px;\">\nAll the posts are listed on the right starting at the top with the latest post, so just jump in where you want to start.<br \/>\nIf you are interested in the planning of this trip, start with the <a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/from-juley-to-namaste\/\">first post<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf you want to start with the first post from our travels then start <a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/428\/delhi-heat-drives-everyone-nuts\">here<\/a><br \/>\nAlternatively, here&#8217;s some quick links to the posts<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width:350px; float:left; margin-top:10px; margin-left:50px; border:1px solid silver;\">\n<div>\n        <strong>Planning<\/strong> &#8211; if you&#8217;re interested in the planning aspects of this trip then start with the first post:<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/1\/from-juley-to-namaste\">Juley to Namaste<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top:10px;\">\n        <strong>Key places we visited, in order<\/strong><br \/>\n        The links will take you to the first post of each place so view the one you&#8217;re after then just click next to go through the other posts<br \/>\n        &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/428\/delhi-heat-drives-everyone-nuts\">Delhi<\/a><br \/>\n        &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/524\/our-golden-wedding-anniversary\">Amritsar<\/a><br \/>\n        &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/556\/off-to-gwalior\">Gwalior<\/a><br \/>\n        &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/561\/emilia-anxiously-aiming-for-orchha\">Datia<\/a><br \/>\n        &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/569\/staying-with-the-locals-in-orchha\">Orchha and the homestay<\/a><br \/>\n        &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/667\/ajantas-amazing-caves\">Aurangabad and the Caves of Ajanta and Ellora <\/a><br \/>\n        &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/720\/indian-hospitality-part-iii\">Hyderabad<\/a><br \/>\n        &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/752\/the-road-to-hampi\">Hampi and Hospet<\/a><br \/>\n        &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/801\/our-train-to-goa\">Goa<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width:250px; margin-top:10px; float:right; margin-right:50px; border:1px solid silver;\">\n<div style=\"\">\n        <strong>Want to See Posts by a Particular Author?<\/strong><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/?author=2\">Kev<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/?author=3\">Emilia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/?author=4\">Amy<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top:10px;\">\n    <strong>Videos<\/strong> &#8211; quite a few of the posts have videos too: <a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/tag\/videos\">posts with videos<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top:10px;\">\n    <strong>Diabetes<\/strong> &#8211; I always guessed we&#8217;d have quite a lot to say about Amy&#8217;s diabetes management in India but it turned out we didn&#8217;t, nothing was too different.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/tag\/diabetes\">Here&#8217;s some posts containing diabetes stuff<\/a>.\n    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top:10px;\">\n    <strong>Hotels<\/strong> &#8211; I haven&#8217;t reviewed all the places we stayed but here&#8217;s some reviews. <a href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/posts\/tag\/hotels\">Hotel reviews<\/a>.\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<br \/>&#160;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#160;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#160;\n<\/div>\n<span class=\"facebook-like\"><fb:like layout=\"box_count\" show_faces=\"false\" width=\"45\" href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/\"><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome&#8230; to our blog about 2011&#8217;s trip to India. After our trip in 2009 we couldn&#8217;t wait to get back to India, to visit another part of a country we&#8217;ve all grown to love. Last time saw us flying into and out of Delhi and having a car\/driver chauffeur us around for 10 days before [&hellip;] <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-kev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monsoon-meandering.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}