Driech* is pretty much how the weather has been in the far north for the last few days. Just as well we’re used to the vagaries of Scotland’s summers and have learned to pack accordingly. The local outdoor and fleece shops have done well enough from us in past years, so now we’ve got […]
This post was written by Di as a series of irregular e-mails to Laura and Julian. They were too good to miss, so I’ve put them together, added a comment here and there and placed some photographs where appropriate. I’ve always been intrigued at the idea of a city built on/in water. How […]
If you haven’t read it yet, the power of the antibiotic is about to come to an end as the polymyxin resistance gene that is readily passed between common bacteria is no longer threatened by our favourite (after anti-depressants) medication. Simply put, there will very soon be nothing to stop a common cold becoming pneumonia […]
When I left you last, we were en route to Narlai and full of trepidation as to what kind of caravanserai we’d find there. Narlai is deep in the Rajasthan semi-desert, but we needn’t have worried. The tiny town – 7,000 inhabitants make it more than a village I think – has twenty Jain […]
These have been busy days; travelling from Gwalior to the Js. First to Jaipur, several days on the streets and then on to Jodhpur. Two cities in central India that are home to much of the country’s history and able to speak volumes of their entanglement with their former colonial rulers. Jaipur, unremittingly […]