Author: awaywiththebirds
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Incredible India: a voyage with Robyn and Sara
Day 8: Jaipur- Agra Today we drove to Agra which is around 240 kms from Jaipur. Along the way, we visited an amazing stepwell. The Chand Baori is a stepwell built over a thousand years ago in the Abhaneri village of Rajasthan. It was built by King Chanda somewhere in the 9th century. Stepwells, also…
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Incredible India: a voyage with Robyn and Sara
Day 7: Jaipur Today was mainly a rest day at the hotel….so here’s what our room looks like, and bit more of the surrounds. At each of the hotels we have received lovely gifts – scarves for the women (and men got hats). One of the gifts was accompanied by a frangipani leaf with a…
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Incredible India: a voyage with Robyn and Sara
Day 6: Jaipur Robyn went to early morning yoga and had the yoga instructor all to herself! I strolled through the extensive hotel grounds (32 acres for 87 rooms, including a number of tented rooms, a lily pond, a tennis court, a herb garden and even a helipad). Our first stop was to the Amer…
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Incredible India: a voyage with Robyn and Sara
Day 5: Udaipur to Jaipur Phil, there’s no cricket news in Rajasthan because as you well know most of the Indian test cricket team come from Mumbai or Delhi ! I would be lying if I told you that we ran into Virat Kohli last night! We had an early morning flight to Jaipur. It…
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Incredible India: a voyage with Robyn and Sara
Day 4: Udaipur Sammy, you’re right …there isn’t a universally recognised 7 or 8 star hotel rating, despite people thinking there is. It’s actually an unofficial term coined by a journalist for the Burj Al Arab in Dubai to emphasise its sense of luxury. However, officially, hotel ratings systems max out at 5 stars. Jim,…
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Incredible India: a voyage with Robyn and Sara
Day 3: Delhi-Udaipur Before I tell you about today, I need to finish off the rest of our first day in Delhi. Better still…. Here are some sights and sounds of the chaos at the Old Delhi markets. (Hopefully you can access the link) https://share.icloud.com/photos/06dqm_QUUX41VvxnZbsf5JrAg After the markets experience, we went to lunch at a…
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Incredible India: a voyage with Robyn and Sara
Day 2: Delhi WE MADE IT… arrived Delhi at 9.45 pm (with 2 and a quarter hours to spare). And here we are sitting quietly in the foyer of our hotel, the Oberoi, while multiple staff process our reservation, take our bags to the room etc etc…. When we went through immigration, there was a…
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Incredible India: a voyage with Robyn and Sara
Day 1: Travel day The Indian visa system is interesting. You can’t apply for a visa until 30 days before you travel, and then the visa expires 30 days from the date you applied (not from the day it is granted!?!) So I applied for my visa on the first possible opportunity …Dec 10…. My…
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New Year’s Day 2025
The Fen Shui colours for 2025 were green, red and yellow. And everyone (except James) partly or fully complied. Lots of red and yellow shirts and green tops or skirts…. Jim excelled himself (after borrowing John’s Rastafarian cap) Even the food reflected the obligatory colours ….Jen used red, yellow and green capsicums for her dish;…
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Nobby goes on holidays
Last days with Suss I joined the usual Sunday walkers (although some were absent….for instance, Tilly’s mum wasn’t there, and nor was Tilly….this is such a shame as I was going to show Tilly my new bubbler manners!) Anyway, it was pretty busy on the walk to Coogee, and once we got to Coogee, I…