My last five weeks in India were spent in just three places - a much more leisurely travel pace than my first few months. Rishikesh was a lovely town in which to relax for a couple of weeks and then do a week of intensive yoga at a nearby ashram, Mussoorie was yet another cold and beautiful hill station where I visited a friend of a friend, and Varanasi - sometimes described as the quintessential holy city in India - was my last port of call before flying to Nepal.