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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]