Pushing, hawkers, touts, shopkeepers, pickpockets, cows, cow dung, dogs, dog shit, monkeys, flies, motorbikes, noise, men spitting, staring eyes, shouting, […]
Archive for November 2015
Into the Pink City
Those of you who love the Pink Parade in Cape Town would adore the colours in Jaipur City although that’s […]
On location with James Bond
Being an avid James Bond fan all my life you can imagine my face after recently watching Octopussy (set in […]
To spit or not to spit? Hchyuck
Jojo our Indonesian friend asked me which I disliked most, people (men) urinating in the street or people (men & […]
Marching in the Red Fort
The Red Fort in Delhi was built by a Mughal ruler to symbolise the seat of power back in the […]
But first let me take a selfie
There’s this weird thing that happens to foreign people in India. I call it the selfie phenomenon. Complete strangers walk […]
From the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea
One day we were cavorting in the Bay of Bengal and enjoying the fairs of Pondicherry, the quiet, serenity of […]
The year of the itch
I don’t recall much about having chickenpox, only that it itched like crazy. I’ve been stocked up with all kinds […]
Meeting Jason Statham in India
My dear Indian friends and photo-bombers I would just like to confirm that I am in fact NOT Jason Statham. […]
Mysore Palace
Mysore Palace is not as old as one thinks, the stories of the family that ruled the kingdom in years […]
into the strange 