Views from the Sky
Experienced travellers are supposed to always take an aisle seat. I always asked for a window seat that “was not over the wing”. To me...
Category: Past Times
Claremont, March 1980
I think this may have been the trip when Nicky and I stayed in a house belonging to University colleagues of my friends while the...
Weekend Car Hire
The IUGG Assembly ran from Monday 3rd to Saturday 15th December. On the middle weekend I joined some colleagues from the Oceanography Institute in Wormley...
Sydney
At the end of the IUGG meeting a colleague and his wife from the Oceanography Institute invited me to drive down to Sydney with them....
Delhi – Jantar Mantar
Situated near the Imperial Hotel, the Jantar Mantar is an astronomical observatory built in the 18th century by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur. Apparently...
India and Nepal 1986: Itinerary
Although by 1986 both Nicky and I had travelled in Europe and North America, India and Nepal was a more exotic destination for us. I...
Delhi: Humayun’s Tomb, Lodhi Gardens, Raj Ghat
Humayun’s Tomb: The tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun is now a World Heritage Site. Built in 1569-1570 it was one of the the first garden...
Delhi: Qutub Minar and Birla Mandir
The Qutub Minar complex of monuments are some distance to the south of New Delhi so I think we must have visited them during a...
Jaipur: Hotel and Bus Tour
The “Pink City Express” train left Delhi station at 0550am. In 1986 India Railways were still using steam engines. On the station platforms, people were...
Jaipur: Auto Rickshaw Tour
On the morning of Sunday 9th February it was wet. All the time we were at the Narain Niwas Hotel there were these two guys...