Welcome from Jan
Hi there!
This blog is for those who love both books and travel. I'm starting by travelling back in time to the 1970s and the overland trail to India which I took as an 18 year old. Have a look at my daily diary entries and photos. Some of these places are impossible to visit at the moment, but I can give you a flavour of what they were like in the golden age of the hippy trail.
The experience has inspired my new mystery novel, THE VANISHING OF RUTH, which is out now as an ebook. Find details and extracts at The Vanishing of Ruth
To buy: The Vanishing of Ruth
Also take a look at Facebook Page Overlanders for more memorabilia. http://bit.ly/Overlanders
HELP ME FIND MY FELLOW PASSENGERS! TAKE A LOOK AT THE GROUP PHOTO (post on 30th November 2009) AND CHECK THE NAMES ON THIS LINK: http://www.indiaoverland.biz/overland/passengers/sep26_76.html
Cheers, Jan.
Our Delhi accommodation so far was a hotel that reminded us of a brothel and a hostel that was basically a doss house - Ma Calaco's. But she kept a motherly eye on us - providing us with old sleeping bags (I don't like to think how often they'd been used and by whom) and turfing out two blokes to another room so we could have charpoys to sleep on.
It may have been basic but you can always tell a high-class establishment by the graffiti On the toilet walls:
GOD IS DEAD (VOLTAIRE)
and underneath
VOLTAIRE IS DEAD (GOD)
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