Category: Travel
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The Same
‘How long have we been here? Is it Wednesday or Tuesday? Excuse me sir, what day is it? – and March?. Dhanyavad Ji!….. So we have one day left here before the Udupi train?’ Days are the same with minimal variation. Trying to find an ATM that works, a little painting, a little walking. The same…
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A Rather Abstract Kerala
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Presenting India’s First… Wax Museum!!!
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A Bubble of Love in White: ‘Amma’ – ‘The Mother of All Hugs’
Cruising down Kerala’s backwaters heading towards Amma. After the painful intensity that was Gokarna, boats, water and space are needed. Palms and waterways don’t quite remove the past few days from my brain but they help. I am accompanied by two great people, Mystery and Moonlight, those being their chose spiritual names for this pilgrimage. Leaving flowers on the…
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A Tiny Snapshot of Gokarna
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A Death Bed Dinner Party
The veranda looks older than previously, like we all do apart from his beautiful wife, radiating youth and beauty, working away in the kitchen in oranges and yellows. Slight silent tinkles of aluminum suggesting that the meal isn’t far from ready. High on the wall an image of grandpa amongst the gods, remembered and revered daily by the powdery red dot in the lower center…
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The Hardest Journey So Far
A train ride i have taken a hundred times, a track as familiar as my walk to work and back. Lost between elation and dread , traveling south to a place i have previously called home. Seats with space but my head has none. Heading to a place, a location that has housed my deepest…
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Meanwhile in an Internet Cafe in Goa………
“Oh Thom, we met a huge group of girls from Trinity College yesterday and it was such a shock….and i had my first pice of meat in days…..it was sooooooo yummy!!!!!!!!!! Hows Barney and Flip??? Oh classic! We just had a red snapper ya, and we were surrounded by candles on the beach, it was…
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Pushkar in Blue and Orange
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Agra Beyond The Taj Mahal
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24 Hours in Delhi
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India – The North South Divide!!!
Weeks in Delhi looking at Art and dead previous prime ministers blood stained clothes. Camel trekking in the desert and several twenty hour train journeys in an almost freezing north India. Roof top restaurants and falling out of rickshaws whilst under the influence of cheep dark rum, taking hundreds of photographs along the way. Back to Delhi to Agra to Jaipur, all first class,…
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