Breakfast was taken on the rooftop terrace in beautiful warm sunshine. The altitude is lower here, about 900m, so the air feels much...

Another brilliant sunny morning. The air is fresh but the sun warm. This morning we have swifts and swallows flying around! I had to get...

Good morning world! Blue skies, snow capped mountains on the other side of the lake, a cuckoo calling and a hoopoe sitting on a fence...

This morning was the chance to have a look around Karakol. Firstly it was a stop at the Russian Orthodox Church. This was a wooden...

Today is our last walking day and as forecast the weather is overcast with low cloud cover. As we leave the hotel it is raining so it’s...

Wow! What a day! We were in the minibus at 9.00 ready to be taken to the start of our walk. We travelled west and eventually turned off...

We woke to a sparkling morning. Deep blue skies and at least 2 inches of snow. It was the first lazy morning we have had as the decision...

Today it’s another bus day as we say farewell to Kazakhstan and hello Kyrgyzstan. It was cold and dull as we left and very soon after it...

Today was to be our first proper walk. A trek from the first Kolsai lake up to the second. There is a third lake too and these were...

Friday 24th May Up at 7.00, breakfast and onto the minibus by 8.00. We had another long drive today. We followed the road eastwards...

Thankfully we slept well and felt much more human when we woke. The missing suitcase had been located in Heathrow and overnight had been...

It was raining in London when we left late on Tuesday afternoon but that didn’t dampen our spirits. The flight to Istanbul was bumpy but...

And we’re off on another adventure! It’s been a long time since we’ve done anything like this and there are a few nerves, mixed with...

So what happened to the rest of 2020?! We had so much planned! A trip to Marbella in April to cheer Helen on in another half iron man....

Up early this morning as we wanted to try and get some photos of the mountains in the clear morning light, before the haze...

We were collected from the hotel at 9.30 by Piyush and Ram and driven to Shimla railway station. The train wasn’t due to leave until...

We are sorry to be leaving Chonor House and Dharamshala. With a bit more research we might have arranged to spend another day here to do...

Sunrise from our window this morning. Arvind, our guide for the day met us at 9.00am and we walked to the Buddhist complex where the...

We are being driven by Ram, our driver now until we fly back to Delhi from Chandigarh, to Dharamshala. Travelling roughly eastwards to...