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 took around 2 hours...

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. You can get nappies, ...

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 3500 taka (£40). Quite ...

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 back to Cox Bazaar a...

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 this was mainly season...

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 there it was important...

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, it is possible to...

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 from India…. - No clot...

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 different room. We had lunc...

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 Daramsala. Lost foreigners,...

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 directly to Manali. I can’t...

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 from the Lotus Grand,...

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 Foreigner Booking Office ...

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 June to finish what w...

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 was a stunning flight ...

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 Rs (£158) and once ag...

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 founded in 1630. We toure...

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 motorbike which was somet...

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 for 3000 Rs (£34) t...

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 they quoted 3750 Rs be...