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More Adventures in Mumbai

Posted on January 10, 2018March 30, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Got up around eight o’clock this morning, and went out on our balcony where the morning was already warm.  I didn’t fancy going to breakfast so Trevor just brought me back a cup of coffee and a small muffin which I ate in the cabin while getting ready. Around 9.30am, we disembarked the Constellation and…

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Exploring Mumbai

Posted on January 9, 2018March 31, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) is India’s finance centre, the economic powerhouse of the nation, heart of the Hindi film industry and the industrial hub of everything from textiles to petrochemicals.  It is the glamour of the Bollywood cinema, cricket on the “maidans” (open grassed areas), outstanding colonial architecture and red double-decker buses.  We were…

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Goa and the Kingfisher Brewery

Posted on January 8, 2018March 31, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Woke up around 7.30am to the sound of singing and music playing loudly, so even if we’d wanted a lie-in there was no chance of that! 😊  We went out onto the balcony and saw that we were moored up in Mormugao, and there was a large makeshift gateway/archway proclaiming “Goa Welcomes You” and a…

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Homeward Bound

Posted on November 8, 2015June 30, 2022 by bollingerbabe

We were awake this morning well before the alarm-call, so I got up and decided to have a long, hot shower as we knew we had a long day ahead of us.  We packed up our cases, labelled them and left them for collection outside our room. I felt an ominous rumbling in my nether…

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In A Jam from Jaipur

Posted on November 7, 2015April 3, 2022 by bollingerbabe

It was a later start again this morning – 8.00am – but before we went along for breakfast we had to pack our cases and leave them outside for collection; we had the long journey almost back to Delhi to undergo today for our final night in India.   🙁 Afterwards we assembled in reception…

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Jaipur and the Amber Fort

Posted on November 6, 2015April 3, 2022 by bollingerbabe

This morning we had a veritable lie-in, as our wake-up call wasn’t until 8.00am.  We therefore got ourselves ready and went for a leisurely breakfast along the scented hotel corridors.  One thing we’d noticed about the hotels we’d stayed in; they seemed to have a lot of oil-burners and incense sticks around, leading to a…

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Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright

Posted on November 5, 2015April 3, 2022 by bollingerbabe

Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night.What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? William Blake The early morning phone call shattered the silence once again at 05:45am and we tiredly rose and went about our business, getting washed and dressed and along to reception in time for coffee and biscuits.  The…

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Spots Before Our Eyes

Posted on November 4, 2015April 3, 2022 by bollingerbabe

We were awake before our early alarm call this morning at 05:45am, and we got washed and dressed and made our way to the hotel foyer where there was hot coffee, tea and biscuits on offer.  We would not get our breakfast until after our safari. Everyone was in a suppressed state of excitement at…

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All Aboard for Ranthambhore!

Posted on November 3, 2015April 3, 2022 by bollingerbabe

This morning our wake-up call came at 7.30am so that we’d be packed up and ready to go after breakfast by nine o’clock. We were on the move again today, but our first stop this morning was to Fatehpur Sikri. As ever we battled our way through the frenetic streets, marvelling at the diversity of…

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Taj Mahal and Agra Fort

Posted on November 2, 2015April 2, 2022 by bollingerbabe

We had always heard that the best time to view the inimitable, world-famous Taj Mahal was at dawn, just as the sun was rising. However, our guide Peter told us that he’d seen the Taj at different times of the day and it didn’t look any different. Therefore our wake-up call this morning came at…

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