Flashback – this was 2010 and I somehow had found myself relocated to Hyderabad in India for 3 months. The city is known as Hi-Tech City because of all the Western Technology companies who had opened offices there. While I was there Facebook moved in and Google opened an office next to the apartment block where I…
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The Sitting Elephant Restaurant at Ganga View Hotel our ‘base camp’ in Rishikesh
Rishikesh is famous as the Yoga Capital of the World and a Hindu Pilgrimage town. It is located in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India, apart from the Yoga the only other thing I knew about it before we arrived was that the Beatles came here back in the late 1960’s. I was expecting…
Connaught Place in New Delhi is so Western they even have Dunkin Donuts!
On our last full day we went to Connaught Place in New Delhi which they say was modelled on the Royal Crescent in Bath England. It is a set of shops laid out around an inner and an outer circle all built in the Georgian style. If you can put to one side that…
Food on the Indian Railway – a Tale of What they fed to us as we travelled from Haridwar to Delhi
Today we were to leave our Tour Party and make our own way back to Delhi by train. It was going to be an adventure and the first time in two weeks that we had been left all alone, and to our own devices. It was both liberating, exciting, and slightly daunting all at…
Vegetable Market in Rishikesh – Lots of great produce and a photo opportunity
We left our hotel looking for somewhere to get an evening meal but instead we found ourselves in the hustle and bustle of another typical Fruit and Vegetable market in India. It was bright, it was vibrant, and if I had my own kitchen and apartment I would have been down here every day…
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