Were on the road.... it's great! The first few days were weird as we wondered around not quite knowing what to do with ourselves, still having thoughts for the hospice and other bits of work... but we took it easy, ate a lot and drank much chai and now we are well and truly in doing sod all traveler mode! (it's a hard life i know)
Our first stop was Varanasi. The holiest place in India. It was interesting. A great deal smaller than Kolkata which was nice, we went on a boat on the holy Ganges at sun rise, it was very beautiful. There was mist covering it and it definitely felt holy. There were people bathing, swimming, washing clothes and drinking the water all side by side (next to a sewage pump.) it was crazy to see. After hearing the horror stories of how polluted the water was i am pleased to say i didn't fall in, even though our boat was a little unstable!
We wondered around the bazars (markets) and i fell in love with everything i saw (for a shock!) i had a skirt made out of a sari and a dress made. I was in my element and James was happy as every shop we went in, he was given chai.
Then we headed on a night train, (which turned out to be a night and half a day train) to Jaipur, Rajasthan. It is gorgeous here. It's a little hotter and has a Middle Eastern feel to it. I love it.
Jaipur is named the pink city as a lot of the buildings are a beautiful shade of... pink. There is so much detail on all of the buildings. I have become obsessed with photographing the patterns and details of the buildings. (and I'm wanting to recreate them in our house at home... when we get one!)
It is so relaxed here, the LP says its 'Rajasthan's most polluted and pushy city'. To James and i who have just spent 3 months in Kolkata, it's a town, no it's better than that, it's a village!
So were heading onto Jaisalmer tonight to ride camels in the desert, then making a B line for the beaches. I hope everyone at home is well and happy. Quite often our conversation out here turns to coming home. It feels very strange but kind of exciting. I just hope we bring the weather home with us... BUT this is still 5ish weeks off and we have got a lot more land to cover here in India, so for now Namaste xx
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