I love critters. Perhaps I shouldv’e been a little more cautious when moving towards a gang of teeth-baring primates at the Galwar Bagh temple in Jaipur, India, but I just couldn’t help it – I wanted to hang with them. Thankfully, I live to tell the tale, although the sly little punks did rob us of […]
Photo Of The Week – Mumbai Girls
September 16, 2011 by 2 Comments
You see so many interesting people in India, and I was fascinated in particular with all the kids who would follow and talk to us while we were exploring the streets of Mumbai. These girls made me laugh – they followed us for a good few hundred metres giggling, but when we turned around […]
Photo Of The Week – Pretty As An Indian Elephant
August 19, 2011 by 5 Comments
As an animal lover, I was absolutely stoked to see Elephants up close in India – but even though these Elephants seemed to be treated well by their keepers, it still made me a little bit sad that they were housed in a shed and used for tourist rides. We were in Jaipur and on a high […]
Surviving A Mumbai Taxi Ride
July 26, 2011 by 8 Comments
Normally, when someone you don’t know grabs your suitcase and rips it from your clenched fist you would assume you are being robbed – but not in Mumbai. There it is simply a transaction between you, the unsuspecting tourist, and your eager and willing taxi driver. For once you release your grip on your bag […]
Photo Of The Week – The Backwards Delhi Runner
June 17, 2011 by 6 Comments
Delhi is a wonderfully mad city – from wild animals roaming the streets to the colourful tuk tuk drivers and overzealous locals – anything goes in the Indian capital! So it wasn’t very surprising on a wander through the gardens surrounding the India monument and presidential palace that we came across a ‘backwards runner’ who […]
You Don’t Mess With A Jaipur Temple Monkey
June 15, 2011 by 3 Comments
I’ve always loved primates. It fascinates me that they are so alike to humans, yet so different…well at least I thought so until I sat with a gang of temple monkeys on the side of Jaipurian temple Galwar Bagh – if they didn’t have fur and weren’t the size of abnornally large rats then passers by […]
Photo Of The Week – The ‘Delhi Squiggly’
June 3, 2011 by 10 Comments
You don’t ask whats in a Squiggly, you just enjoy it. If you really wanted to know the nutritional content of this famous Delhi street food, then you probably shouldn’t be eating it…and for the record, it’s pretty much just flour, sugar and fat, but man, do they taste good! While we were only in Delhi for […]
The Best Way To Travel In Goa? By Scooter Of Course!
May 17, 2011 by 9 Comments
Let me get one thing straight – there is nothing easy, or particularly safe about riding a scooter in India. This is even more so true in cities like Mumbai or Delhi where you are not only contending with the standard road obstacles like cars, trucks and bikes, but you have the added ‘fun’ of […]
Delhi: The City That Nearly Broke Me
May 9, 2011 by 11 Comments
Delhi will chew you up and spit you out if you let it, and I almost succumbed. My first day in the city while having travelled through the old town and then into the new I kept trying to fit Delhi neatly into a box. This was my first mistake. Nothing about Delhi is neat, and […]
Photo Of The Week – Taking On Delhi’s Crazy Cricket Kids
May 6, 2011 by 7 Comments
Indians love their cricket. This quickly become apparent to us from flicking through the never-ending number of 24/7 cricket channels on Indian TV, and also from the fact that virtually everywhere you turned, someone was either holding a bat, ball or set of wickets. eagerly awaiting their next over. While wandering the sprawling grounds of the […]
