Memories of India

Now we're back in (cold and wet) Whitstable, I've been working through all the photos I took and culling the folders a little. If we'd had one more day in Mumbai I would like to have spent a few hours just photographing some of the beautiful buildings in the City - many are from the Colonial era and there's a mixture of architectural styles, Victorian, Gothic and Art Deco.    Here's a few I photographed on our travels but there are so many more .... next time maybe! Grand entrance to the Museum Museum Majestic House Municipal Corp. building

When David checked in online for our BA flights he found that all the window seats had been taken (apparently) which was disappointing Then when we checked our bags at the airport we were given different seats to those offered online and we were told the plane had been changed (to a larger one we believe) but still we were given one aisle and one end of centre row seats. David suggested upgrading but then found out that the cost was an additional £400 each so changed his mind rather hastily. I said what a shame it was that we weren't getting good seats, unlike on our outward journey which was excellent and the very nice young man winked and said 'I'll see what I can do' ... lo & behold we got window and adjoining seat! I was able to take photos as we departed showing just how close the slums are to the runways at the airport ... There were so many spare seats in our Premium Economy section that we were able to spread out and we had a really great flight back.    ...

Having stayed in a variety of hotels/homestays in the South of India, we decided to indulge in a bit of luxury for our 4 nights in Mumbai.   Expecting our time here to be fairly frantic we booked a superior suite in the 5 star Oberoi which has a brilliant location at Nariman Point, overlooking the Marine Drive promenade. We really couldn't fault the room or the view although I found the attention from the staff a little overwhelming so we resorted to hanging the Do Not Disturb notice on our door handle most of the time.    The room had all the things you'd expect - mini-bar, tea/coffee facilities, dressing room, safe etc., but additionally we had personal slippers, silk robes and terry towelling robes.   TV in the bathroom as well as the bedroom.    Remotely controlled shutters on the bathroom and bedroom windows.    We had a personal butler and housekeeper (both of whom obviously felt a bit put-out by our failure to make ...

We're back in Whitstable and feeling the cold after being in mid 30s temperatures for a couple of weeks.    Just put the third lot of washing in the machine ... how quickly we're coming back to reality I have thousands of photos to plough through but I won't go back and 'tweak' those on the Blog - I can see that some of the ones I posted are quite dark but I was using a new camera and wasn't totally familiar with it (plus I didn't have a decent photo-editing programme on our little travel computer) Here's a few that should have been included on recent posts - but I simply ran out of WiFi time We saw this little shrine in/on a tree and noticed that it was shaped like the elephant headed God, Ganesha - the God of Success and some very nice Chai sellers where we stopped on more than one occasion ... we had to wait our turn whilst a couple of local police officers were getting their flask filled! Had to smile at these two guys hanging a banner promoting Nati...