The day after the bombings, all tourist attractions and all shops in Jaipur were closed and the old walled city was inaccessible. You read about bombings almost every day, but somehow they’re a lot more worrying when they explode in a place where you were walking around only a few hours earlier. We spent the […]
Note: this posting was written and published just after the Jaipur bombing incidents, so we are all fine.. India is a land of extremes. That is for sure.. There’s heartbreaking poverty and incredible wealth. People are generally very nice but many are only after your money. They can be very helpful while others are plain […]
Wow. Mumbai is very different from Chennai and Goa and not necessarily in a good way. The people seem fairly rude, often trying to rip us off, and our rather expensive hotel room is a bit of a dump. However, everything looks different in the sunlight, and we spend our first full day in the […]
Goa is a small state on the West coast of the Indian sub-continent. The Portugese controlled the area for a long time (around 400 years) before being thrown out by the British. You can easily spot the remains of their reign; the Catholic chapels on every corner and the old town of Panaji, Goa’s capital, […]
