Travel Tangles

At precisely 11:59 p.m. time tonight on this New Year’s Eve in New York City when clocks on the East Coast of the USA will be ticking the very last minute of 2009, about one million people will gather at 1 Times Square at an area formerly known as the…

A Passage to IndiaAs we came out to the airport entrance after arriving at Delhi Airport from Heathrow Airport in London, we looked about for the man who was to meet us there. We were going to stay at a budget hotel [recommended in Lonely Planet] located in the Tibetian…

HavelisI’m writing this entry while sitting in our room in a ‘haveli’, a traditional heritage house of the kind found in the Indian states of Rajasthan and Gujarat that have been turned into guesthouses in modern times. This haveli where we are staying was once the home of one family,…