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Beers with a true traveller

Posted by scottness | 12th October 2007

Thursday: It's our first full day in Delhi since returning from our tour of Rajasthan and Madya Pradesh, and we're taking it pretty easy. I spent 6 hours in an internet cafe near our hotel updating my blog, creating a travel map, answering e-mails and backing up my photos. Pretty soon it's evening, and we decide to drop by at "de Gem", a bar recommended by the Lonely Planet guide, along the Main Bazaar, the main drag of Paharganj, the backpacker region of Delhi.

It's here that we meet Graham, a 59 year old India-phile from the Channel Islands, and over the next four hours he would tell us his amazing story. A painter/decorator by trade, Graham has been visiting India since the early seventies.
In 1978 he simply started walking from village to village for a total of 8 years, accepting free food and accommodation from friendly locals! These days he limits himself to six month blocks spent mainly in Rishikesh, his favourite place on Earth. A self confessed hater of the west, he work

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