Travel: Day 9

I just want to finish this now. Something that happened 7 months back is still haunting me. I mean this travel series of Nainital; it just refuses to die. I'll tell you what? I'll finish this today itself. I don't need to tell you about my Travel back to Mumbai because nothing happened as such. Apart …

Travel: Day 8

I hate it when this happens! Thanks to my incessant procrastination Day 8, which is the 6th of June, 2013, has been lying around unattended since when I wrote it! The fun is lost in writing a travelogue when something like this happens, I swear. I don't even feel like posting it. *Tries to calm …

Travel: Day 7

We reached Delhi around late evening and all but sprinted to a cab to get as close to air conditioning as possible. Summer in India is something that can be totally missed. It's hot. A temperature of 40 degrees (Celsius, not Fahrenheit. The only time we Indians use Fahrenheit is when we're checking for fever. …

Travel: Day 6

The last day in Nainital. Today will not result into anything grand because we have to spend 7 hours sitting with 3 "inmates" in seats designed for 2 in a train that'll take us to Delhi. I've packed my Camera in the bag so there's not any chance of a random pic to adorn this …

Travel: Day 5

Today is totally ours. Although, technically speaking there are places which we could've been to, but we bunked it. For example, Ranikhet, which lies around 60-70 km away, was planned but after enquiry we found out that the route includes vomit inducing routes. So we gave it a miss. So today I did some personal reconnaissance …

Travel: Day 4

Nainital lived up to it's expectation. The internet did not. While I never bothered to check the temperature while booking tickets I thought about it just a week before leaving and it left me shocked! The internet result made me feel that it was naive of me to expect a nice cool climate just because it's …

Travel: Day 3

We found out that our henna dyed, moustachioed driver planned on financing his year long henna supply through us itself. The prices he had quoted yesterday for the sightseeing was around 2 times the regular fares. It was just another instance of my dad believing a smooth tongued rascal. My mother is sharp in these …

Travel: Day 2

The day started with the sputtering death of the cooler. Power cuts are normal out here. What was unexpected though was the fact that the lodge had no UPS system. It was 5 in the morning. The temperature in Haldwani was a comfortable 20but the dying cooler still robbed us off our sleep. We were met …

Travel: Day 1

The day started with breakfast and last nights cold jumpin (or some other pseudo mango juice). Read this to get a better feel to my traveling ire. We were on course to Delhi and on time. I'd like to mention a little fact here. The Bombay-Delhi Rajdhani Express and The August Kranti Rajdhani are different …

Travel: Day 0

I'm with my younger sister, my mom and dad. I'm in the August Kranti Rajdhani which leaves from Bombay Central at precisely 1740. I'm on my way to Delhi from where I'll catch a connecting train to Katghodam. And then to Nainital. I'm going to try and write everyday. Sounds like shit, because technically speaking …