The Joy of a Microcamper

It was mid-September, and we were in Agra.  Sitting atop of our rooftop palace, locally known as the ‘Vacation villa’.  We had been discussing the bed, the most comfortable hotel bed I had ever slept in.  We were packing away the Kurta, respectful clothes purchased for our wonderful early morning visit to the Taj Mahal….

After boarding our overnight train from Mumbai, we awoke in Southern India.  A rattling night on the rails made sleeping not much more than a doze. It was however an improvement on the Amritsar to Agra train we took some weeks ago. We pulled into Tivim 40 minutes late. We were beginning to think that…

At the end of October, we were on the move with what seemed like the rest of the Indian population.  We were fast approaching Diwali and we were on a local train from Kochi to Kanyakumari.  Seven hours in an Air Conditioned carriage in ‘Chair’ seats.  The seats weren’t together. After a couple of hours,…

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…

We needed Varkala to fix us. Travelling for around six weeks, we were a bit sick.  We had suffered from back-to-back colds. We had both been ill in Kochi and were now also sick of moving about.  Having reached the end of the world at Kanyakumari we were heading back north. Ultimately back to Delhi…

Our planning for this trip was sparse and almost non-existent. But, we had always planned to spend very little time in Mumbai.  There was little we wanted see. We arrived from Ahmedabad. The train between the two cities is a common ‘express route’ so tickets and availability were plentiful.  When we arrived in Mumbai we…