Eleanor, aka El, is my sister and fellow traveller to India. She started a week later, as her husband's big-0 birthday fell in that first week of January. But she gets to stay a week later, and is currently travelling through north-east India - Darjeeling, Gangtok, Calcutta, Delhi and Agra. By making El an author, I'm hoping she'll be able to tell you (and me) a little about her travels.
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| El, in front of the Chinese fishing nets in Fort Kochi |
Some of you may already know that my father, Gordon, aka G, aka Gopa (GOH-pah), was born in India and lived there until he was about 15 years old, with his three younger brothers and his parents. (His father was a missionary there, as was his father before him.) He attended Mt Hermon school in Darjeeling, and home was in/near Calcutta/Kolkata. And he remembers enough Bengali to delight other Indians (and occasionally scare the wits out of them).
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| El and G, outside his senior school dormitory, Mt Herman School, Darjeeling. (photo from El) |
So that's why they're going to Darjeeling and Calcutta. Gangtok is at 5,500ft in the Himalayas and has been a place of exile for many Buddists from China. And due to flight changes due to the imminent demise of Kingfisher Airlines, and the utter unreliability of Air India, they have an extra couple of days, so are throwing in Agra and the Taj Mahal for good measure.
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