Katie Revell\’s India Blog

For those of you who are enjoying, or preparing to enjoy, a barbeque (is it Summer yet, over yonder?), perhaps you’ll this post will seem especially resonant, or multi-sensory, or something…
We are in Varanasi, one of those cities that the guidebooks describe with adjectives like “bustling” and “grimy” and “colourful”. It is all of those, [...]

There are a few new photos.
And a blog entry on the way, I promise..!

I forgot to mention that we visited that most classic/cliched of Indian symbols while in Delhi, the (can you guess what it is yet?) Taj Mahal. We took a day trip from Delhi to Agra, like proper tourists (I’m still in denial about my own affiliation with the T-word). The - and I shudder to [...]

Having just lost to the darkness of cyberspace the screeds of classic writing I’ve just typed out, forgive me if this entry is a little rubbish.
 So. After months of “I can’t wait to get up North” and “I can’t wait ’til we get to the mountains”, here we are, in the mountains up North. To [...]

We’re just back from the Border Closing (”Retreat”) ceremony on the India-Pakistani border, so apologies for the patriotic rhetoric. The ceremony occurs every evening just before sunset - a very theatrical display of military might (curiously in the form of a lot of exaggerated goose-stepping and blaring Bollywood numbers…). Actually, it’s really just an excuse for a [...]