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4 November 2017
I had a lazy morning after my hotel’s South Indian breakfast. It was nice to have the internet again. Having done all my “must dos” yesterday, I did some reading and generally surfing before checking out at 1145 before the 1200 cut-off. It seemed like a perfect plan that my train departed only nearby at […]
2 November 2017
Above: Random sign for a restaurant. After a very restful day of doing nearly nothing yesterday, I’m moving on from Cherrapunjee to Guwahati through Shillong. I had sore calves yesterday from the hike the day before; a little unexpected as I thought I’d get sore quadriceps perhaps. My knees lasted surprisingly well. After breakfast, I […]
1 November 2017
The sun rises around 0530 here so I woke early. I had breakfast at 0730 and had organised a packed lunch. Having not heard from the girls last night I had resigned myself to getting my own taxi at INR800 roundtrip to Tyrna, the starting point for the hike for the living root bridges. But […]
31 October 2017
There was a bit more light this morning when I woke compared to yesterday. But it was only 0530 when I checked my clock. That’s because the weather wasn’t gloomy like yesterday. With a 0745 report for my tour, I talked my way into having tea at 0720 in the restaurant, 10 minutes before it officially […]
30 October 2017
My hotel room included breakfast starting at 0730. I had semolina, potato curry, hard-boiled eggs and puri. That all went very well mixed together even though I don’t think it was meant to be. A banana made the breakfast complete. I explored the area around Lake Ward which was the centre of the colonial town. […]
29 October 2017
Above: View on the flight from Delhi to Guwahati. Having retired early last night, I was up before my alarm and left the hotel at 0615. Delhi before dawn is a different world with people sleeping on the streets, stray dogs sleeping on the streets and hawkers starting to fire up their tea stalls. Quite […]
28 October 2017
Today I leave Central Asia but I’m headed to the biggest “stan” of all … Hindustan. Also known as India or Bharat. As usual for me, when there is an early flight to catch, I didn’t sleep well. Alarm was set for 0430 with a 0500 taxi. At the airport, I got my boarding pass […]
9 January 2016
Quite unusually, I didn’t get a good night sleep. For a start, being Friday night, the clubs were pounding out music and even though it wasn’t loud, it was enough to disturb me. Then it was a little milder tonight. My sleep was light and short, waking up at 0400. Perhaps it was the beer […]
8 January 2016
My days in Pokhara had been hazy so far. For that reason, I opted not to make the effort to go to Sarangkot to see the sunrise illuminating the Annapurna range. After breakfast, it was obvious I needed to fill in some time. I kinda thought it would be a waste of time/money going there, […]
7 January 2016
I had allocated the morning for shopping and the afternoon for climbing up to the World Peace Pagoda. Nepal is heaven for buying old weather gear and active wear. I spent USD25 on replacing my Keens sandals which broke a couple of years ago, USD15 on a Under Armour compression top, USD15 on a Haglofs […]