Peter meets one of Nainital's former residents, fully house-trained (the tiger, not Peter).
It lived in one of the houses that belonged to my great-great grand-uncle in the 1870s.
Are we crazy? After having travelled to Sri Lanka last August, then India in January this year, blow me down if we go and DO IT ALL AGAIN! Totally NUTS!! But this time, admittedly, there were differences. Anna came with us to Sri Lanka in March, then Marie and I went to Uttarakhand in April, a northern Indian state we'd never been to before.
In Uttarakhand we spent a week at Nainital, a chilly hill-station in the foothills of the Himalayas, with the hope of finding evidence of the presence of my great-great grandfather from the 1870s. Not only did we find evidence, but (to our great delight) we found a lot of it. Also visited a delightful new school being established in a small village an hour outside the state capital Dehradun. Between Nainital and Dehradun we met a lot of new friends and fine people.
Get the full Uttarakhand story and pictures here.
