Tiger on tour

Who flies on Friday 13th? That’d be me. We woke in the morning and took a taxi from Srimongol to Sylhet Airport for 3500 taka (£32) which...

I thought I would write a quick evaluative post about baby stuff and what you can and can’t get in Dhaka, and in Bangladesh in general. Y...

On 11 September we took a car and driver from the Hotel Norrjahan Grand in Sylhet to Green Leaf Guest House in Srimongol at a cost of 350...

Thwarted by St Martin’s, and having watched the second boat leave and had a good cry, I thought “ok, moving on… what now” so I got a CNG ...

Failure! Well I hate to ever thinking I have failed but I guess a trip wouldn’t be complete without a bit of a balls up…. First of all th...

We were in Dhaka City for 3 nights from 4 to 6 September and had a few jobs to do. First of all, after the long travelling time to get th...

On 3 September we finally set off for what was a bit of an epic flight with Emirates as I couldn’t find a direct flight to Bangladesh. Now...

Below is the new and revised packing list for our one month trip to Bangladesh, which includes one week in India. A few lessons learnt fr...

On 21 June we took a car back to Manali in order to take the big trip to Leh and spent another night at Joshi’s Homestay but in a differe...

On 18 June, Tiger’s 5 month “birthday”, we took a car and driver to McLeod Ganj which is a bit like the hippy Manali-esque end of Daramsa...

On 15 June, rather than take the circuit route which would have lead us over a big pass just after Kaza, we took a car and driver directl...

Having survived our memorable power cut night in Kalka, on 12 June we took a tuktuk in the morning back to the railway station (not far f...

On Wednesday 12 June we were due to start our trip to Shimla by train. I had booked the tickets before we’d left to go home via the Forei...

After my Gran’s funeral on 4 June in Dorchester Abbey and what was, in the end, a wonderful week at home, we jetted back to India on 11 J...

Finally on 28 May we started our long journey back to the UK and Nobu loaded the car up and drove us to the Leh Airport. I must say it wa...

On Friday 24 May we were all packed up and ready to go again… this time to Tso Moriri Lake. The cost for 3 days and 2 nights was 14,000 R...

On Thursday 23 May, Nobu my driver took Tiger and I to see all the local Leh sights so we went to Hemis Monstery, 45km from Leh and found...

In Leh, we booked the next part of our trip to the Nubra Valley. 13 years ago Robin and I went over to the Nubra Valley on a Pulsar motor...

Having booked our flights home for 31 May, we could now resume the trip and so we back tracked to Alchi Monastery taking a car and driver...

On Saturday 11 May we arrived in Leh, and checked into a hotel in Changspa called Omasila for 2200 Rs (£25) a night. Worth noting that th...