Postcards from abroad
We are leaving Delhi at 3.00 in the morning, so this is our last blog from this holiday. We had today to see some things we hadn’t done before - the National Craft Museum (wonderful!) was our first stop. By chance, our taxi driver was a Sikh and we got into a political conversation of… Continue reading Farewell from Delhi – the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib
Well, we made it at last to Varanasi, and rebelled when our rep - the poor frozen man at the station - told us that our guide would pick us up at 6.30 am the next foggy, freezing cold morning for a boat ride. Not for us after that exhausting train journey. We therefore started… Continue reading Varanasi
Our plane to Varanasi was cancelled so Nikhil thought that we should finally experience a full-on Indian Railway experience - none of this effete executive chair stuff that we’d had before. Our friends who travel frequently to India love the trains so perhaps we were missing out? All started well - we had a two-hour… Continue reading The train to Varanasi
In the last blog, the opening picture showed Joanna’s collection of little pottery animals made locally, so Sue and I were keen to visit to add one or two to our collection of small creatures that inhabit our shelves and mantelpieces. Sue wearing her lucky coat, we set off with Joanna in the driving seat… Continue reading The Sarai Part 3 – the pottery
We promised more about The Sarai. It’s a really beautiful place with eight glorious cottages, carefully built of mud and sand so that they retain the cool in summer and warmth in winter. The details of everything - the bathroom design, the fabrics, the floors in each cottage which have been made by Keralan craftsmen… Continue reading The Sarai Part 2 – the property