Our last overnight trip within India is over now and we spent it in Darjeeling (if you enjoy being pedantic like us, remember that Darjeeling rhymes with “gargling” when ordering your Darjeeling tea).
Once again we have defied death with a hair raising ride down from this 7000 ft Himalayan village and tea capital. [...]
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Darjeeling
Posted in Darjeeling, Holiday, India, travel on 24 January, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today we take the overnight train to Darjeeling which we are quite excited about after having just seen the film “The Darjeeling Limited”. Even though that film actually took place in Rajasthan it adds romance to this trip. But yesterday morning we arrived in Varanasi so let’s write about that first.
We travelled first A/C on [...]
Goa Part II
Posted in Goa, Holiday, India, travel on 19 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK, just a few quick loose ends about our dining experiences in Goa.
We went to Colva one night for dinner and found Bob’s Shack behind the “Pasta Hut” on the beach where the service was good and the atmosphere was great. After a little bargaining we got the price of our Grilled Shrimp down to [...]
I figured I had better write about Goa soon as we are now on our next and penultimate Indian pilgrimage to Varanasi and Darjeeling. But before I get around to that let me offer some advice, if you are taking the train from the New Delhi Station or the Old Delhi Station, don’t drive there [...]
P.S. Bombay
Posted in Bombay, Holiday, India, Mumbai, travel on 13 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve had a really relaxing time here in Goa, in fact so relaxing, I’m not sure there will even be a blog entry in it – sat on beach, ate shrimp, drank too much – but we’ll see. Instead, today I want to just clean up a few odds and ends from the Bombay leg [...]
Going to Goa
Posted in Goa, Holiday, India, train, travel on 11 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I promised myself that I would deliver a light and fluffy post from here in Goa and that I shall do (but not before writing an un-posted entry on corruption in India and the West).
Our trip here by overnight train from Bombay began with an object lesson in what India is like. Our [...]
Bombay Dreams Part II
Posted in Bombay, Culture, Holiday, India, Mumbai, corruption, travel on 10 January, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mrs. WMG does the best she can to get us to see the sites and do the touristy things that are necessary to ensure that we don’t get back home and have some other traveller ask us, “Oh, when you were in X did you see Y…oh, you didn’t, well it was the highlight [...]
Being Bill Gates
Posted in Holiday, India, Sri Lanka, travel on 5 November, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We just got back from Sri Lanka where we went for a much needed long- weekend break. This was really Mrs. WMG’s trip as it was a major birthday (one that ends in zero or five which gets to be important as one begins to accumulate them) and also needed to leave India to [...]
