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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…
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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…
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,…
February to March 2024 It all happened because of my teenage obsession with Duran Duran. My Husband had just had a knee replacement. We filled his three months of recuperation with travel guides. We bought seven. Loosely related to places that we wanted to visit over the next few years. After a few days, they…
What is it really like to fly Southern China Airways? Too early to see a pension, we are careful when we travel. We no longer seek out five-starLuxury in all-inclusive resorts, we travel with 40-litre backpacks and rely on Booking.com toprovide us with ‘on the move’ accommodation.Because we base our exit from two of the…