So the question on everyone's lips is, “What's it like in Shimla, Jason ?”. Well I'll tell, shall I ? This place is fricken' great – admittedly this is my first time in a non-Westernised country, so a lot of the stuff which seasoned travellers regard as pretty standard is still wiggin' me out to…

Wow, got to Shimla today, and there couldn't be two places more different ! After driving for what seemed an interminable distance across flat, dusty terrain our bus started up a gradual incline and the landscape became incredibly green. The roadside was even peppered with gum trees ! I mentioned that the traffic in Delhi…

Hmm, that was well done… never made it to the Red Fort – apparently it was closed, but then I also had a little trouble working out wha tin the hell the guy was trying to tell me about getting a cab out there. In the absence of any other good plan I elected to…

Listing all the things I needed to do before leaving was an excellent plan. At least it has given me a concrete understanding of what it was I didn't get around to doing. Off to Heathrow ! Who knows where I'll be the next time I get to update this… I reckon I'll reveal the…

Heathrow really takes all the fun out of flying, doesn't it ? Never mind… I'm now here to tell you about my hotel room in Delhi, because I haven't organised to go outside yet (although that's immediately next on the agenda after posting this). Truthfully I've only really spent any time in my hotel room,…

Am doing the final packing & tidying & getting organised, although for the first time before a long haul trip I wasn't up til 5am feverishly sorting through stuff to take ! Must be getting old…

Annie: 42 Wazza: 27 Creog: 143 Quntley Fortescue: 73 HB: 47 Charlie: 64 Steve T: 37 smange: 120 Douggy: 1.5 (I suspect suddenly someone's not taking this seriously) Karen: 71 Lynn: 58 NickyZ: 160 kt: 64 And counting… keep 'em coming ! Somehow, this becomes pointedly relevant. Okayyyyyyyy, just because the suspense is killing me…

Wow, where did that time go ? I finished work on Friday and have had all the time since then to get organised for this trip to India on Thursday. The organisation has in fact commenced, although it's not quite as far along as I'd hoped. Oh AND I seem to have picked up a…

Following a lovely but incredibly rushed meal at the Mela Tandoori (where owing to their slackness of service, the staff gave Liz a free bottle of wine and let her feel the manager's moustache), I went to the Palace Theatre to go see Spamalot – the musical lovingly ripped off from Monty Python & the…

Time seems to be evaporating in front of me at the minute; have been working stupid hours to get this project out by Friday, as my contract finishes and I can't stand leaving a job half done. The sense of countdown is exacerbated by the fact that I leave for India next Thursday for 6…