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India Part 6 Kerala & Tamil Nadu

India Part 6    Kerala & Tamil Nadu 1st February We have a day off and spend the day relaxing in the guest house, catching up on writing and  organising our plans for the next couple of weeks. Our original plan was to drive south as far as the tip of India, Cape Comorin, from where [...]

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India Part 5 – Karnataka

24th January    Southern Goa We re-start our Overland Adventure, leaving family behind and head to Goa’s southern beaches for a few days of rest and relaxation.  The journey to Agonda beach does not take long.  As we arrive we head straight to the camp we had found earlier at the end of the beach. Today [...]

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India Part 4 – Goa Family Visits and Weddings

India Part 4   GOA 2011  Family Visits and Weddings 1st January 2011 We wake up to 2011 on a serene Goan beach. Martin wakes up with a hangover and spends the day in bed!  I decide to go out for a long walk along the beach towards the centre of town and go shopping, taking [...]

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India Part 3 – Goa

  India Part 3  GOA 2010 We arrive in Goa, and drive towards Baga, the party region of Goa, where we find a small guest house in secluded woods just back from the beach between Candolim and Calangute. We go to Brittos, a well known restaurant on Baga beach, where we have fresh fish and [...]

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India Part 2 – Rajasthan

INDIA Part 2 Rajasthan 10th December  2010 We leave Agra early to start our journey to Pushkar.   The road is quiet and feels more like a country road in England, flanked by green fields and small villages.  The road seems to be smaller than the national highway we were expecting but we are not too [...]

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India Part 1 – The North

INDIA Part 1  – The North Amritsar The road past the border is smooth and surprisingly quiet.  We stop at the Grand Hotel, a basic but relatively cheap hotel. Since Martin had not had any beer since leaving China about a month ago, we decide to sit in the garden conservatory and have a small [...]

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