PART ONE – OUTBOUND Many of you who are kind enough to follow my blog will know that my favoured means of transport these days is by train. There are so many reasons for this which I won’t bore you with but our experience on this holiday sums it all up pretty well, so here…
Sorry for the delay in posting this but things have been hectic since we got home with swarms of granddaughters coming to stay. Well that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. Today is our last day in Marrakech and there is one thing left to do from our list. Years ago on an earlier…
…and an excellent cup of coffee. This is not supposed to happen, it was raining when we woke up and was cold too. So we stayed in bed. Eventually we got up and had a leisurely breakfast by which time it had stopped raining but looked likely to start again at any time. We set…
“Oh I do like to be beside the seaside…..” And why not? Marrakech for all its attractions is a dusty, sometimes smelly and occasionally smoky place so a day beside the seat (well Atlantic Ocean actually) is a delightful prospect. so before we left home we booked tickets for a day trip to Essaouira; former…
Monday morning, start of a new week, start of a holiday now we’ve caught up with our sleep, so where to go? In the end we settled on the Museum of the Confluences which holds Islamic art and has a world famous coffee shop. But wait I hear you say, Marrakech museums don’t open on…
Sunday morning so we had a lie in which was good after a tiring couple of days. A nice relaxing breakfast and we were on our way. Today’s target was Le Jardin Secret which is a beautiful Islamic style garden that we had first seen a few years ago in Monty Don’s series “Paradise Gardens”…
It was going to be so easy. we had the flights booked direct from London Gatwick to Marrakech, we’d booked overnight accommodation near the airport so that we had a short drive in the morning to the parking we had also booked allowing us a carefree check in with plenty of time for a leisurely…
Hello, remember me? I used to blog about our travels and some people out there were kind enough to follow my ramblings and some of you even went so far as to say that you enjoyed them. Then it all stopped. In 2020 Covid-19 reared its ugly head and all our travel plans went out…
And so, suddenly, it’s our last day in India. We’re taking the day in a leisurely manner and after a lazy breakfast we went down to the beach again. I don’t usually do special effects type things with the camera but this one has a panorama setting so here’s a 180 degree view of the…
We have decided that in Kerala as it’s SO hot and humid the best time to do things is in the morning and then to go to ground until the evening. This provides opportunities for a late lunch and an afternoon nap which I think is an excellent idea when on holiday in a hot…
For the morning of our first day at Marari Beach we have organised a ‘Temple Tour’ through the hotel, we are due to start at nine o’clock and arrive a few minutes late. “I have been waiting for you” says our guide somewhat disaprovingly; this does not bode well. Anyway we are ready, we have…
Wonderful news, a lie in as we are not being collected until ten o’clock! Needless to say that we were up in good time and took the chance for a final walk along Kochi Beach by the Chinese Fishing Nets before breakfast. Today is our final drive with Bala who has been with us ever…
So here we are already at the eighth day of our holiday in Southern India, how time flies! Today for the first time we are completely on our own with neither driver nor guide and the whole of Cochin at our disposal and Mrs Sixwheeleer has shopping in mind. An early breakfast so that we…
I’m not much liking early starts and today we were up again at the Crack fo Doom to be ready for our transfer to Cochin (Kochi). We have along drive ahead of us , not so much because of the distance but from the road, a very good road indeed in terms of the surface…
It is six thirty in the morning and I find myself drinking a cup of coffee with a Frenchman, he is going to look at elephants and I am going for a walk in the jungle – well more like a forest really. The Periyar Tiger Reserve covers an area of just over nine hundred…
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