One family's experiences around the world
It struck me as I was browsing through the photographs on my Monument this week, that I had never gotten around to posting about our visit to Gandhi Smriti during our trip to India at Christmas. As one of the highlights of our trip, I couldn’t let it pass unmarked. Located on Tees January Road
When we told our friends we were spending our Christmas in India, we were met invariably with two responses; the first shocked at our choice of destination and the second inquiring where in Goa we were staying. When we elaborated that we were in fact going to travel the ‘Golden Triangle’ between New Delhi, Jaipur
Few places on Earth can compare to the Taj Mahal. Officially chosen as one of the New7Wonders in 2007 and regularly included in other ‘wonders’ lists, a visit to the monument to eternal love deserves to feature on anybodies bucket list. We visited the Taj Mahal on the final day of our Golden Triangle tour
It’s 9am in Agra and I’m squashed into a 2mx2m ATM vestibule with 8 other people. We all have our bank cards in our hands and we’re all anxiously watching the guy at the front of the queue as he inputs his PIN number. People close to the ATM machine are actually peering over his
“For driving in India you need 3 things,” our driver said as we left the car park at Indira Gandhi International Airport. “Good horn. Good breaks. And good luck!” And so it was that we headed into the early afternoon traffic of New Delhi with Jonny, our driver for the next four days, en route
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