Category: Travel

First there was Bhaji on the Beach, now Cows on the Beach! I walked to the nearest beach, a tourist trap, to see the sunset and ran into our friends, the cows. After the cows in Chikhli Market/High St and now here, I’ll be creating an album called “Cows in Unlikely Places” if this continues … Continue reading / view photos Cows on the beach

The night market at Arpora is quite something – full of colours, smells and decoratively placed items for sale. There’s food available from all over the world courtesy of the international ex-pat community. The music was provided by Indian band playing indie rock music! View photos Night market

You gotta go to Goa: they sell Marmite! 😄😋

I loved the cows casually walking around the market as if they owned the place – like mafia bosses accepting “gratuities”! The women selling bananas said to the cow after giving some food, “OK you can go now, he’s taken the photo”! View photos Bovine mafia

India, the little I’ve seen, has such varied architecture. Here are some examples from a small town. I wonder how India works with its population and infrastructure. The wiring in the first photo gives us a clue: just get the job done by hook or by crook🔨⛏🔧😄 View photos Just get the job done

OK guys – India is broken. There’s wind and torrential rain right now. What happened to the 33c I’ve had for the past week?! This is beginning to look familiar, except in London the electricity would still be working 😊

My first trip to India! So it seems perverse that my first post should be of the humble aubergine plant, which I’d never seen. This photo shows the stages from top to bottom: first the flower, then the aubergine begins to emerge. Finally the flower is subsumed within the aubergine. If the rest of India … Continue reading Hello India – I’ve waited all my life