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It wasn’t a great start to a new city. Having finally arrived at the hotel the staff didn’t really seem to be expecting us. A handful of polite and helpful staff made ready a room for us. But unfortunately, it was the worst hotel room I have ever booked into. It seems that the Indian…
We arrived in Hue. Tired from the overnight train. The train was fine, mostly empty. We chose to take sleeper seats rather than a sleeping berth. This was because berths in Vietnam were in groups of six. Our last long sleeper in India with Four Berths taught us that if you share your berths with…
In April 2025, the BBC announced that the new season of Race Around the World would start at the Great Wall of China and end at Kanyakumari, in India. Kanyakumari is not a name which instantly springs to mind when someone mentions India. Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi. Yes, all these plus perhaps Pune, Shimla, Agra are…
We were in Chang Mai. We had sought assistance from the hotel travel desk to obtain onwardbus tickets. As I stood speaking with the travel agent my eye was drawn to the rainbow displayof folded leaflets advertising local activities.My focus rested on a pamphlet for the Maerim Elephant Sanctuary. Plucking the leaflet off thedisplay I…
Travelling from Jaipur we decided the easiest way to visit Pushkar was by bus. The train line doesn’t come any closer than Ajmer. From there you had catch a bus anyway so we decided to do the whole trip in one go, by bus from Jaipur. Having purchased our bus tickets online, and timetabled as…
The draw of the beach at An Bang was so strong. Before we knew it we had stayed eight days instead of the originally planned five. It was a great place to celebrate the New Year and wait for things to return to ‘normal’. We didn’t want to leave the beach, but we had to…