Posts/Entries
All posts/entries, for now, from over two decades of global travel. And a few colourful tags, too.
Anjuna Beach, Goa, India
For three evenings in a row I was holding out hope, forlorn hope as it turned out, for a good sunset to photograph. I did see what a sunset on Anjuna Beach here in Goa, India, was capable of. That was three days ago, when I first arrived here off the train from...
Panjim, Goa, India
I broke free from Anjuna Beach for a while today & paid a visit to the Goan state capital of Panjim. It was a 4-hour excursion that was a decade & three visits to Goa in the making - ashamedly this is my third visit to Goa stretching back to 2002 & I had...
Hospet to Goa, India || Riding The Rails
Sometimes Sweaty. Sometimes Attritional. Always Interesting. Always Colourful. Always 100% India On the Hospet to Goa train, India. September 26, 2012 I estimate I'm over half way there. Half way to the beach in Goa that is. It’s 11:00 a.m. on September 26, 2012, and...
Hampi, Karnataka, India
It was some ten years ago now on the beaches of Goa not long into my first visit to India. He was a memorable character so I remember the conversation with him well. I was a India greenhorn. He was anything but - he'd spent most of his vagabonding days in the country....
Mysore, Karnataka, India
Mysore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, has a few things going for it but few look beyond its fabulous palace, a dynastic seat of power right up until Indian independence from the British in 1947. And for good reason - it's pretty special, easily one of...
Kerala, Southwestern India
India's Laid-Back State. The Best Place In India To Escape India Itself Chinese fishing nets, Fort Cochin, Kerala, India. September 19, 2012 Picked up as one of the 50 must-see destinations of a lifetime by the National Geographic Traveler, Kerala in southwestern...
Fort Kochi (Cochin), Kerala, India
It's pretty safe to say that Fort Kochi (Cochin) in the Indian state of Kerala is a place steeped in history - it was a spice trade centre for over 3,000 years & it was here that European colonisation of India first took root. In many places present-day Fort Kochi...
Alleppey, Kerala, India
Unfortunately it has been a slow & frustrating couple of days since I finally left the beach at Kovalam, some 160 kilometres further south down the Kerala coast. I've taken three bus trips in as many days (although none for longer than 2 hours) to get here to my...
Kovalam, Kerala, India || Moving On
I’m just about beached out & I’ve had it too with listening to Arabian Sea waves crashing on the rocks below my room balcony. Don’t hate me; after a while it does get tiring. Forget what I said about it being therapeutic upon arrival some days ago now. It’s not....
Vizhinjam Fishing Village, Kerala, India
Today was my third day by the Arabian Sea here in Kovalem in the laid-back state of Kerala, southern India. I took my camera out and took it for a stroll down the coast from Kovalem's Lighthouse Beach to Vizhinjam, a small fishing village. While it was only a few...
Kovalam, Kerala, India || Arrival
It’s September 11, 2012, & I'm in the midst of taking it easy looking out on Arabian Sea waves crashing on the rocks below the balcony of my Rp700-a-night (€10) guesthouse room - it claims to be a hotel but it's a hotel only in name. The noise of the waves is...
Sri Lanka || A Wrap
IMAGE || Riding the rails, Central Sri Lanka. "Sri Lanka was a treat, its scenery amazing, its food delicious, its people some of the most genuinely warmest, welcoming I’ve yet encountered. ‘The Nation of Smiling People’ indeed." Having just spent the last eleven days...
Kandy, Sri Lanka
Kandy is Sri Lanka’s historic UNESCO-listed second city & cultural centre. The country's capital in the 16th century, this sacred Buddhist site, popularly known as the city of Senkadagalapura, was the last capital of the Sinhala kings whose patronage enabled the...
Ella & Nuwera Eliya, Central Sri Lanka
My adventure in Sri Lanka continues. I've spent the last few days in the chilly hill county towns of Ella & Nuwera Eliya (& getting between the two was a real treat). This is tea country - the first tea leaves harvested in Sri Lanka were planted in the hills...