Once in a while (at least I say this in my currently very tech-savvy-just-discovered-Premiere-Pro state) I will share with you a longer video,

It’s been a while now that we’ve been telling everybody who asked that we’ve been in India for two weeks, while in fact—it has been one month!

As it often happens while traveling, access to pharmacies and doctors is limited and so we tend to revert (with an open mind and hopeful spirit) to the local remedies on offer.

Let’s call today flashback sunday… with mixed feelings I am thinking back to our 3 days in Nainital, Uttarakhand

You won’t believe what happened today…

Just a 15-minute jeep ride from Kausani and then a 25-minute foot march we have found our little nest in the mountains.

We will spend the next few days or weeks (?) in this little village called Naughar

Being a fan of the early explorers since our Pakistan days, the stories and accounts of Sir Francis Younghusband, Peter Hopkirk’s The Great Game, Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and many others 

This is just a little ‘eye opener’ for all of you who’ve been fantasising about the following picture:

Ihr werdet es nicht glauben: Wir waren im Auto mit unserem Freund Simone – der hat uns gefahren – da war plötzlich ein Elefant, der über die Autobahn gelaufen ist. Einfach so. Wir mussten sogar kurz anhalten!