Restless Prairie Girl

I'm carrying on with my stories of a two-week tour of Northern India in 2007.   January 27, 2007 : Upon arrival in Kaurali we checked into the Bhanwar Villas palace hotel.    The money that our tour company (Imaginative Traveler)  paid the Maharajah who owns the hotel went towards renovations on his beautiful city palace which we would see the next day.    This Art Deco summer palace which was constructed in 1938 lies on the outskirts of the city.    Our tour guide (known to the ladies as Mr. Hotty)  handed out our keys and when I went to mine I nearly fell over - it was HUGE!    The bathroom was as big as my living room let alone the rest of the place.    Mr. Hotty told me he had given me the largest room and not to tell anyone.    As is common in Asia one part of the bathroom was a "wet room" where you shower.   Most places have slip proof tiles underfoot but I've encountered the odd one where you had to be very careful.  I recall tripping on the step up into the&

Then it was my last day in Tallinn.  Ironically it was a year ago on this date!  Yes, it took me a year to finally get my Scandinavian posts done. (blame the scabies...I will be writing a post on that eventually...)  Now that I knew where to catch the bus to get to the Estonian Open Air Museum I decided to spend my last day there.  I'm so glad I did.   Google maps told me to get off bus #21 at a certain stop and I did...Turns out that Google maps was wrong (wow! really?) and I still had a ten-minute walk to get there.  Of course, there was a stop right in front of the entrance!  Ah well...more steps on my Fitbit!  Luckily I had some Euros on me as the credit card machine was not working.   This open-air museum is amazing.  It was opened in 1957 and houses around sixty-eight farmhouses in twelve farmyards.  The museum is definitely more rustic than Skansen in Stockholm was and much bigger.  I managed to walk through most of it and was mostly on my own with no one around.  I think at