Monthly Archives: April 1970

First puncture of the trip, just before Indian frontier, cost 2 rupee. Total spent in  Pakistan was 120 rupees = £10. Lahore was a terrible looking place, dirty, the main form of transport is horse drawn rickshaws. The driving is also a bit chaotic. We had no trouble crossing the frontier as we expected, took a little hash through … Continue reading »

I think today we’ve had the most fantastic day and the hospitality we have been shown is more than we could imagine. In the early morning we set off for Delhi in the burning heat, which was overwhelming. Then out of the blue we came across a great cold clean river and swam, we expected to see … Continue reading »

We stayed yet another night in the home of the Kapur family, up at 5 am while the day is cool. And then the days visits begin. All day he keeps us supplied with food, beer, as much as we want and we visit all his friends around the narrow streets of Karnal drinking tea when we stop … Continue reading »

Woke early in the house of Mr Kapur and his family after visiting more of his friends to have tea and have our photo taken, he tried hard to persuade us not to leave. But we said our thank you’s and goodbyes, it was all getting a bit much, felt like we were being paraded around, what … Continue reading »

Frustration as been the order of the day today! We set off to get everything done by 11am but nobody is interested and everything is so disorganised no such thing as speed! Yesterdays temp was the hottest in Delhi for 10 years. Met Bill and Brenda again, received letters from Mam and Sandra but none from Larraine, … Continue reading »

A rare old lazy day, done nothing much, dived to the bottom of the old well, 70ft to water down old rickety ladder then dived 30ft to bottom, ears cleared slowly bit of blood but made it down, brought up an old bucket and a bit of rope. Took a dog into town its thought … Continue reading »

Letter from Mam and Nana Took the little dog to the vet again today gave him an injection, Vet couldn’t understand why the couple wanted to save him he was only a street dog. Disappointed at the post office, another letter from Mam and Nana but nothing from Loraine. Yet mam received the letter on the 14th … Continue reading »

Spent a lazy day doing Exactly nothing. Wrote a letter to Loraine I hope she gets it, it appears she may not have been getting them. The temperature is cooling off a little now, its been the hottest in 10 years inDelhi last week it was 115 over 40 people have died with the heat. Had … Continue reading »