Safely arrived and happy new year to all !!

Dear friends,
just a very short message to tell you that I arrived safely and - after Delhi and Agra (visit of the Taj Mahal) - I have now arrived in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. Internet access is not easy to find here in India and generally quite slow and expensive. Organising my trip also takes much more time than I would ever have imagined... trains are 5 hours late, buses break down or the last bus to somewhere leaves 1.5 hours earlier than indicated and you are in some lost place, it is dark and you have to find a way to get back the almost 40 km to the city where your hotel is (to mention just the major difficulties I have experienced so far...). But to be clear: as the experienced traveller I have become, I always managed in one way or another... For the rest, the country is extremely interesting and I have already seen very beautiful things - above all the Taj Mahal.
All this just to explain, why there is not much so far on this blog. I also do not want to promise that I will be able to keep up with the standards I had set during my last trips... Let's see.. I might have some time tomorrow night.. for the moment I am trying to find out what I will do tonight (new year's eve..), which is also much more complicated than I had thought...
For all those I had promised my Indian mobile number, I will just make the information public and suppose that only those of you will call / sms who had asked me the number to get in touch... but, well, if you want, feel free... ;o) : 0091-96.49.078.125.
I wish you all a good start into the new year !!

Up to new adventures: India

I am up to new adventures: This time; I will go to India from 27 December 08 to 17 January 09. I will start in Delhi, then go to Agra (Taj Mahal) and then make a tour around Rajasthan. I wish all of you a happy new year and hope to see you soon !!

Jürgen