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My room in…Varkala

July 5, 2011 India
My room in Varkala

Varkala Beach, in Kerala state, was my last stop in Southern India and my last stop in India. I stayed for nearly ten days waiting for my flight from the nearby city of Trivandrum to London and decided to splurge a little.

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Trust and the solo female traveller

July 3, 2011 Adventure
Solo female travel in India

For most of my time in India I was travelling with a couple of friends I’d made in Tibet. We had a great time, connecting with locals and making new friends everywhere we went. But when we finally parted in Delhi, I found myself alone again, and lonely.

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Jaipur’s Hawa Mahal

June 29, 2011 Asia
Hawa Mahal Jaipur

I knew nothing about the Rajasthani city of Jaipur’s highlight, the Hawa Mahal, or Palace of the Winds, before I visited the city. As I discovered, while it’s no Taj Mahal or Golden Palace, it’s beautiful and has an intriguing design.

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A strange day in Delhi by AC Car

June 27, 2011 Asia
A day in Delhi

Every time I visit Delhi, I promise myself that it will be the last time. Delhi is crazy. It rivals Beijing for the number of sights packed into the one city, and you could spend two weeks there and not see it all. But it’s also crowded, it’s dirty and the people are not particularly [...]

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Making masala chai

June 25, 2011 Food
Making authentic chai

These days I find it difficult to believe that in the not-so-distant-past I didn’t like tea. I was a coffee drinker through and through. In fact, I could count on one hand the number of days on which I’d not had a coffee since the age of about eight years old. I even remember my first [...]

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Superlatives at Amritsar’s Golden Temple

June 22, 2011 Asia
The Golden Temple at Amritsar

It was one of those moments where my brain didn’t quite trust my eyes. Was this place for real? Could there really be such a building in such a setting, one where the whole place almost seemed to shiver like it was as insubstantial as vapour?

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A rickshaw ride through Amritsar

June 20, 2011 Asia
An auto-rickshaw ride in Amritsar

There is nothing like riding in an auto-rickshaw in India. Looking over my photos from Amritsar recently I came across a few that I took during one such ride and just had to share them with you.

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