Once upon a time, a little girl was told that women shouldn’t fly airplanes … I grew up knowing ‘mum…
A hike in the Himalayan snow
We left the glimmering lake at Dodital to climb another thousand metres, ascending pine forests, crossing streams and meadows to…
The whirling dervishes of Istanbul
The Galata Mevlevi Museum | Istanbul | February 2020 *** A few months ago I had the good fortune to…
My Mum the Pilot
In honour of International Women’s Day, I’m reposting a blog post I wrote a few years ago which was featured…
The holyman, the emerald lake and the three stoned porters
I hiked through a Himalayan snowstorm and felt all tough … till we met an old holyman who had done…
Spending half a day at the bank
It wasn’t quite how I imagined the start of my Himalayan adventure. This is the second part of the blog…
Taking buses up the Himalayas
The first post of a new blog series about going up the Himalayas mainly on Indian public transport buses. Taken…
A Merry Assamese Christmas (repost)
Man, those Assamese really know how to party. Here’s something I’m reposting from a couple of years ago, fond memories…
Crossing a special sea between Bali and the Gili Islands
It was a day that started serene, went chaotic and became serene again. A chaos sandwich, if you will This…
A funny incident in the men’s loo
Men’s bathroom protocol | What goes on in the men’s loos? | What is a loo? | A funny incident|…
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