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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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Autumn 2022 Day 0 – After picking up Flo from storage, and leaving Dominic the Micro Camper in her place,we started the long slow drive to Dover.Having our eye on a pub that allows overnight parking for the price of a couple of beers, weunfortunately found they had no chef so the kitchen was closed….
Kanyakumari
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,…
Delhi
Surprisingly our 26-hour train from Goa to Delhi arrived on time. Then having negotiated the very efficient and spotless Delhi Metro we came above ground just yards from our home for the night. We were never under the illusion that we were staying in a well-heeled area of Delhi, but the smell of urine on…
Jaipur – The Pink City
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….
A couple of ‘Loops’ in Laos
We crept over the border from Cambodia. We were looking for something. Not cities or nightlife. We had seen a lot of Temples over the last two months. Looking for insight. For an idea. A feeling. For an indication of how things might have been in Vietnam fifty years ago. We had spent most of…