Heathers comments

What an amazing trip we have had travelling around India. Ok not all the experiences I would like to repeat again but on the whole we just love India. The people we have met along the way are so very gentle and willing to please. I wish we had come to India years ago. Thank you to my Martyn for pulling this trip together what an adventure we have had with our James joining us from Australia in Calcutta.

Martyn had done so much research into our family tree beforehand to see all the puzzles coming together has been an emotional yet proud journey. 

My parents,Victoria and James Grandparents were Anglo Indian/Euro Asian and what a diverse mix we have running through our veins. From Portugese,French,Scottish/Burmese and Indonesian. I would love to say Indian too but this we do not seem able to trace.

We met my 2nd cousin Cedric in Calcutta and it's been a pleasure. He is in his 80's yet he is still sprightly and took us around to all the places that had been of significance to my parents. My parents were privalidged and lived in India through the British Rule. The homes and lifestyle they had they wanted for nothing. My father had great foresight to come over to the UK when they did. Can you imagine my mother came over in the 1940's with two babies on her own with my Grandmother while my father sent money from his job in Calcutta.

It must have been so very scary for her and what they achieved with sheer hard work, we as their children/grandchildren and great grandchildren will always be so grateful. I just wished I could say to them both now thanks so much Dad and Mum. 

I think India is very spiritual and it makes you reflect by it's humbling experience.

Would I return? Absolutely yes. 

My advice would be don't believe everything you read, experience India for yourself and make up your own mind.

Thank you so much to my wonderful husband Martyn otherwise this would not have been possible.