See the white sleeveless top I’m wearing? Friend Averil – she who has first-hand knowledge of my incompetence […]

Day 2 in Dharamshala was taken up with a 70km drive to Palampur, tea capital of India, and […]

This gorgeous place is where I spent Thursday and Friday nights after a four-hour drive from Amritsar through […]

The Golden Temple of Amritsar is the main holy place for India’s Sikhs, most of whom live here […]

First stop Amritsar. I arrived in Amritsar in the Punjab in northern India on Monday evening after one […]

Here I am about to start the long steep trek up to the Tigers Nest monastery. It was […]

I’m writing from the Business Lounge at Paro airport, about to fly out to Amritsar in northern India […]

Thank God for wifi. One of the downsides of being a solo traveller is the sadness, let’s face […]

We drove straight from Paro to the capital, Thimpu, yesterday. It’s about a 90 minute drive. Why is […]

The itinerary had promised an ‘exciting’ descent into Paro in Bhutan. I thought ‘exciting’ might have been a […]