Our second week in beautiful India!!

Hello!!!!!!
Arrived in Chandigarh early Sat morning after a lovely comfortable train ride!!! We were given tea, newspapers and breakfast all for free!! English train services could sure learn something from the Indian train service!! We enjoyed the 3 n half hour trip we saw some very interesting views!! haha! have been made to feel very welcome and at home at number 1537 (Pochi's house! Becki's relatives)! Everyone is lovely and we are especially enjoying the home cooked food!!! YUMMY!!!!!! Daal especially is going down a treat! The first thing we noticed was how very quiet Chandigarh is compared to Delhi!!!!!

Sunday we had an early start travelled nearly 4 hours upto Shimla which is a town set in the base of the Himalayas. Was a spectacular view from here! ( see our pictures to see for yourself). Due to the cold both of us had to have a few desperate interesting and amusing toilet breaks!!! We also saw snow here!!! And we mean real snow not like the pitiful stuff we get at home!!!! haha Monday we had more of a relaxed day we visited the Rock Garden which has been created by Nek Chand who used rubbish and broken household objects to create beautiful pieces of artwork!! Was amazing!! (Mark you would have loved it!!) we also visited the huge lake of Chandigarh which was very peacefull.

Tuesday we were taken to a town called Patiala where Ram's sister used to work in the school. We visited the institute of sport and looked round the national sport museum. After this we were taken round a very prestigious Indian school where we were treated to lunch with the pupils and the teachers. This was really lovely the children were really interested in us and kept coming upto us saying hello and asking us our names and where we were from. We also had a long discussion with the headmaster (its been a long time since either of us have spoken to a headmaster haha!!) The lunch was also very yummy! much better than any of the school dinners we ever had!! We also experienced the real India by walking round a bazzar and also treated to a vip visit to a house that made the very pretty punjabi shoes!!! Today (wednesday) we visited the art and history museum, the archaelogical museum (which explained how Chandigarh was created) and also the Natural history museum! After another excellent lunch by Neelam we visited the nearby zoo which again we really enjoyed!!! Tomorrow we are planning on visiting the Golden Temple!!! which should be very good and very pretty!!!Friday we will be flying in to Mumbai so our next post will be from warmer locations!!! (they pray!!! lol)

Hope you are all well and are not missing us too much!!! Love to you all

L & B xxxxx

P.S Mark you smell too!!!! lol

Our first week in India!!!!

We are both loving India and everything it has thrown at us!! This country has so many beautiful things to see and we have seen loads and we have only just begun!!!
We have already experienced:
Jantar Mantar - astronomical observatory
Lakshmi Narayan Temple- very ornate and beautiful hindu temple.
Qutab Minar- largest tower in India.
The Lotus Temple- built to resemble a lotus flower.
Red Fort- built by the same dude who built the Taj Mahal also saw the sound and light show here!
Rajghat- Ghandi's crematorium site.
Humayun's tomb- prototype for the Taj Mahal- very beautiful!
Akshadam- THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TEMPLE!!!!
The Taj Mahal- Words cannot describe.
The Amber fort- really lovely and they had elephants!!
Palace of wind - named because of all the windows!
Water Palace- in the middle of a huge lake


We are both loving the food and as of yet neither of us have been struck down with delhi belly (touch wood) toilets are an experience of their own!!! We are totally loving India and are embracing every moment of it! Its sooo different from being back home, its hard to describe you really do have to be here to believe it!!! When in England do you see camels, elephants, goats, donkeys, horses, monkeys, snakes, boars when you step in to the car??? Every day is an experience and we cant wait for what India has in store for us next!!

xx