A Round-the-World Journey to Find a New Home Travel Articles

A Round-the-World Journey to Find a New Home #7

From Manikaran into Uttar Pradesh Manikaran is a 4-hour bus ride from Manali, and we spent the most time with noses buried in books to kill some time. The trips by bus are interrupted by stops at local roadside eateries, sometimes that would be just a loose interpretation of some of the places we stopped [...]

A Round-the-World Journey to Find a New Home #6

13th July 2001Himachal Pradesh Last time I wrote seemed an age ago, we had just arrived in Manali, and since then we have witnessed what I consider the most peaceful and beautiful place I had ever experienced, Chandra Tal, “Tal” meaning lake, also known appropriately as “The Moon Lake”. Here we were enchanted by a [...]

A Round-the-World Journey to Find a New Home #4

27th May 2001Sand-Storm in the Thar Desert We missed Jaisalmer because of the heat reported there. But if you come at a more agreeable time of year, do not miss this town, it is like nowhere else in the world, let alone India. We are regretting the decision now as we have met old friends [...]

A Round-the-World Journey to Find a New Home #3

13th May 2001, Mt Abu So here we are in Mount Abu, holiday retreat for thousands of Indian Nationals in the months of June and July. It’s the 13th of May today, and the first few Indians are in town. When I say “few”, I mean it’s crowded like the streets of Delhi in the [...]

A Round-the-World Journey to Find a New Home #1

Departure date: 26th April 2001. Oh my god! It’s less than three weeks till we go, leaving for the trip that we hope is going to change our lives. It’s a search for what may turn out to be a crock of gold at the end of a rainbow, something that may not exist. Let [...]

A Round-the-World Journey to Find a New Home #2

27th April 2001, 22:30Delhi, and it’s about 33°C First impressions: well, after a dream flight (there were only about 50 passengers on our 747 plane, and we could pretty much choose where to sit) walking off the aircraft we were hit by a wall of heat. Not a basking heat, but a heat that you [...]

Coming Home

The culture shock of returning home after travel p