India 5th Test

All the way home.

Left the airport hotel at 7:45 after the usual bartering over the room bill. Delhi proved to be as disorganized and chaotic as ...

Start of the journey home

First section of the journey - Dharamsala to Delhi via SpiceJet turboprop…whohoo! Might be small but it’s spicy… Just an ...

Last full day in Dharamshala

Tour guide booked for a visit to the Dalai Lama’s place and beyond. Plan was to meet up with Debbie H at the temple so we could ...

And on the seventh day – he rested…

Taking Sunday as a rest day, walked along the hills to get some images using the DSLR. Can’t download them just yet, The ground, ...

Day Three – Fat Lady singing

Down to the ground for the start of England’s reply (after disposing of the last two Indians - hardly a challenge) Graeme Swann ...

Day Two – well that was fun

Still up early to get to the ground, Blue skies over the Himalayas Watched a couple of good centuries and a couple of good ...

Day One, win the toss then what?

Really early start so we could get to the ground and get past the exhaustive security in time for the toss at 9:00 AM First the ...

No colonial guilt whatsoever

Hit breakfast early then off the Amritsar. First the Jallianwala Bagh to see bullet holes in the walls and hear about the British ...

Long Days Flying

So LHR to DEL was fine, as suspected our baggage was not checked through to Amritsar so had to do the whole e-visa / biometrics at ...

On the way

So late lunch whilst waiting for our