Leaving India

In just fourteen hours, our great Indian adventure will only be something to look back on with many fond memories of all the bewildering, joyful and fun-filled experiences we have had over the past 4 weeks.

We are in New Delhi right now - icy cold New Delhi - which has sent us scurrying to our suitcases for our socks and jackets. We thought that this weather was bad enough...until we decided to look up the weather forecast for our next destinations - Istanbul and Edirne in Turkey. Forecast night-time temperatures in Istanbul are 5C and Edirne -6C! We are somewhat rueing our decision to visit Turkey in the winter!

Tomorrow we fly out of New Delhi at 1:15pm, though we are quite certain that it will be somewhat later than that due to Delhi's constant problem of fogginess and traffic congestion. We haven't had too much of a chance to explore this bustling city of millions - we arrived slap-bang in the middle of New Year's celebrations on the 31st, and today spent a bit of time at some upmarket shopping places (big mistake) before grounding ourselves again at the mind-blowing markets in Old Delhi. We would have loved more time just to look around and orient ourselves, but alas, our time has run out as we now look frward to the second leg of our journey.

Later on we hope to fill in some more gaps and add some more photos from our wonderful times in Mysore and Goa, but now it's time for bed!

Happy New Year to all of you!