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On the Konkan Railway

The morning was fresh, and a little cold. Margao train station was still busy even at 5.30 in the morning. The ticket office already had a queue and some people were camped out there. I guess getting a ticket is serious business. Ann and I work well in crowds, as she [...]

Goa: I’m not a tourist get me outta here!

I’d always had an image of Goa in my mind inspired by the movie,Sea Wolves, which my Dad had bought many years ago. The film is about a group of ex servicemen from the Calcutta Light Horse heading from Calcutta in the north east down to Goa on the west coast to blow up [...]

New years day and my proposal

As we had been busy every day we had been in Pune, we decided that on new years day we would head out of Pune for a pure touristy day. I decided this would be the day I asked her. My original plan was to propose when we were on the coast, alone but [...]

Meeting the family, Pune, India

Our original plan was to stay in Mumbai for a few days to see the various sites and sounds of mumbai however as we were in Mumbai just 4 weeks after the bombings we decided that maybe staying in Mumbai was not the best idea so we decided to leave the morning after we arrived. [...]

Off to India and the sights of Mumbai!

The Journey

I guess I should start at the beginning. We flew out on boxing day 2008.  Ann had been ill for the last 4/5 days and only really managed to open presents and eat a little bit of our christas paella meal.  As usual the M25 was blocked so me being Mr Intelligent decided to [...]

India – a new expedition

Hello!!

Well its a month and half since Ann and I have been back from India and its about time i sat down and wrote some stuff.  However before i do that there are some things which need to talk about first from my experience :

Traffic

It is a brilliant experience driving in India.  It is by [...]