Leo Fort Hotel Jalandhar

... founded by the sixth Guru Sri Hargobind Sahib. Here the seventh and eighth Gurus were born and brought up. It was here that Guru Gobind Singh along with his followers received the sacred head of the ninth Guru Sri Tegh Bahadur, brought from Delhi with great devotion and respect by Bhai Jaita in 1675. The particular spot associated with and sanctified by it, is known as Gurudwara Babangarh Sahib. The tenth Guru took the sacred head of his father ...

... river plus plenty of nice food. Before I began to eat my cuz took me to see the kitchen where they were making it.. and thank god he did! I won't say what it was like but let's just say it was really easy to stay clear of the meat from then on! It's always gd to know these things before tucking in lol. I've taken a video of the litchen am I am hoping to submit it to health ...

... s nothing like being scutinised by a load of indian women while you try and wash yourself under a tap that only comes up to your armpit! We arrived mid-afternoon and headed straight up to the Indian-Pakistani border at Wagah, in a jeep for 8 people with 9 adults and 2 kids all squashed in! Every night there is a flag-lowering ceremony which attracts a pretty big crowd on both sides of the border. being women we got to move through the crowd to sit on the ...

... there and he was in Nakodar right now, I tried to get him to come back tomorrow morning but he said he was busy and could only go to the bank now. So for the third time today I went to Nakodar! I met my cousin at the bank and he had already got things under way, apparently he has had a business account with them for ages so they were running around him like fly's around you-know-what. It still took them a good half hour to sort out the payment ...

... be in for a comfortable night, hope fully it will keep the mosquito's away too! We went to Rurka on the bike and along the way there were loads for Sunflower fields, because they require a lot of water when we went past them there was a really nice, cool refreshing breeze. It's like your riding along with hot air blowing in your face , then all f a sudden someone turns the AC on full blast! I have put some pictures up for your viewing pleasure!

Day 197 Wed 24th May 2006 Updating the website. I slept in uncle's room last night, I didn't get much sleep but then that was to be expected I suppose. I got up around 10am and just chilled most of the morning. I made my way to the office around midday. I was going to get Kittu to have a look at the bike for me to see if he could solve the cold start problem, he told me his ...

... MY OWN! I have noticed this everywhere I have travelled, the places you visit are always enhanced by the people you are around whilst there. If you're around lousy people then the place your at seems lousy too, enough said on that subject. I am still thinking about going to Hem Kund (another place of pilgrimage for Sikhs in the mountains), but I also need to think about getting out of here very soon. I need to get the tiles sorted at Baba Moti's then I'm free to do as I please. Watch this space!

... I ever do when I'm here is get that thing fixed! When I got to Basti I took it over to Kittu (the mechanic) and told him to sort it out. Uncle's flight was due in to Amritsar airport at 9pm, it arrived on time and they arrived home at 1am, they took their time driving back because of uncle's ill health. It's been a few months since I last saw Uncle and I really didn't know what to expect. He is in quite a bad way, the operation he had done in Delhi obviously didn't work as ...

... with the minister who then gave us a brief tour of the village. He had graciously taken time from "International Woman's Day". He gets a day off from his government work. He showed us his parent's memorial garden and the girl's college he founded (sewing, computers and hairdressing) and then he tried to give me these poor girls handiwork. I just couldn't accept his offer. They work too hard for some foreign chick to take their school projects. We were taken on a ...

... for the last 150 years, which sells English-medium newspapers. Paper in hand, it's a short walk to Om Hotel for a late breakfast on the rooftop with a group from our guesthouse. A pleasant walk out of town in any direction for the day's exploration, and in the evening back to the main hub of activity, where the momo-sellers have set up their stalls amongst the other vendors, and the momo-eaters stand around, silver cardboard plates in hands, munching on the ...