DesiTraveller

  Very recently, I applied for a United Kingdoms tourist short-stay visa, was not supposed to be a big thing since I have been in and out of pretty much all of UK / Great Britain / Wales / Scotland / Ireland North and not North / Hong Kong and a few of the British Territories / Commonwealth / Tax Havens also. Every time there were options to stay back; every time there were good reasons for not wanting to stay back. At the same time, travel abroad does open ones eyes, and if one is observant as well as looking for the Truth - then there is so much history as well as science in travel. For me, navigation and astronomy were and still are important, as well as patterns in civil construction in older Houses of Religion which appear to be like open source repositories. For the curious. And that I am. Asking questions at the risk of sounding foolish? No issues. So anyways, by the time I submitted my UK Visa, and then applied to get my passport back, a lot of time had elapsed, almost two ...

As the description says, this one will be about documenting and writing about domestic India travel by surface, aimed at a not higher than 5000/- rupees per couple per day all in effort - which is a reasonable number in this post-COVID world. Travel, board and lodging, with sight-seeing. We actually managed that last month, May 2022, Goa - Udupi - Coorg - Bengaluru. 5 days, 4 nights, driving a 9 year old WagonR.  And we've done it in the past too, though COVID put a bit of a gap in the proceedings. Both of us are in our mid-60s and so we also aim at a similar profile of readers, not in a very big hurry, and where the journey is also the best part. If you feel tired - stay another night! Every which way, if you are no longer fascinated by paying vast sums of money for doubtful holiday experiences abroad, then India awaits. The Indian tourist in India is the big focus for the smarter tourism industry - especially outside the larger cities, where real estate is still affordable. Our p...