A Passage to India
An veteran with over 20 visits, Olivia Greenway suggests top tips for first timers to India
An veteran with over 20 visits, Olivia Greenway suggests top tips for first timers to India
Olivia Greenway suggests practical tips to prepare for your perfect holiday
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I was writing about a new boutique hotel opening this week where the company had decided to do away with doormen and room service but concentrated on features they think modern travellers want, like free Wi-Fi. It got me thinking: what do I want from a hotel? I have divided my thoughts into three
Read moreNone of my grandparents ever left the county they were born in, never mind the country. Travel was something a coal miner and blacksmith did not do and both my grandmothers had their hands full with over seven children each. Their granddaughter now travels all over the world, for practically peanuts. The cabin crew don’t
Read moreA survey* out yesterday appears to indicate that 35% fewer women have visited India this year compared to the first three months last year. Although part of the reason could be attributed to the economic downturn, it is felt that recent high profile security issues, starting with the rape in Delhi in December last year,
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TWO elderly Russian ladies wearing full-length mink fur coats carefully sip mugs of hot chocolate, their gnarled fingers heavy under the weight of gold rings. If there is one thing St Petersburg has in spades, it’s glamour.
Avuncular Major Singh runs a homestay, Abode Kolta, in Gurgaon; originally just beyond the city limits of Delhi, but now subsumed by the sprawling mass of new developments.
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