The weather forecast was promising. Promised rain and a bit snow. But we wanted to get into nature anyway. After we worked us through our breakfast. Our host tried to spoil us beyond any limits: fruit, porridge, french toast, omelette, sausages, mushrooms, baked tomatoes, bacon, toast, banana bread, coffee, juice, jam, honey, home-made butter and […]

Yesterday (8/3) evening I red “10 walks through Shimla”, provided by our host. Basically, there are 3 roads at 3 different altitudes, connected by a lot of foot paths and steps. At some points, ways let out of town, into nature or towards points of interests on a distance. Not much of an orientation challenge. We […]

Congratulations to all women of the world. Keep up the good work! We started our day today at 4 o’clock in the morning! (Sure, we are on vacation.) Arriving at the hotel yesterday around 10pm, we got the confirmation on our train ticket for today… just about time! Settled all arrangements to be on time […]

On our way to Chandigarh. Half way, actually. Already had our rail meal. We’ve got ‘vegetarian’. In that case it means: a sweet vegetable sandwich, some burger without meat but with ketchup, a soan cake (dry milk-ish with some nuts), lemon water, crunched nuts and of course chay. Still, a lot of things take us […]

Landing in a cloudy, dusty Delhi. Smoothly, we pass immigrations and customer service, get some rupees and easily find our taxi to our first hotel: Tree of Life in Saket, a southern district of Delhi. Near the Qutub Minar. It’s about a one hour drive to the hotel. And all you expect to see along […]

Tomorrow! Tomorrow, my second trip to India starts. So exited! For such a long time, I’m waiting for this! Really, deeply getting into the country, meeting people. Try to understand. For now, I have the pre-fun stuff on my list: packing, printing, cleaning. And always this little voice “You’ve forgot something important.” Never know what! […]