Tag Archives: travel blog
Arrivals
photo found here. I’d like to say that I spent the ten hour flight in rapt anticipation. I’d like to say that my head was crowded by images of all that I’d left behind and everything still to come, that I scribbled furiously in my diary trying to capture the thoughts on paper before […]
Hard Labour
I returned from the Kerala trip to find my street in turmoil. The tarmac surface was split with a deep furrow as if from an earthquake, with mounds of red earth piled high on either side. A stream of red and white tape blocked off both ends to traffic, and just to get into the […]
Fear and Loathing in Varkalla
The story of a small, idyllic community changed irrevocably by tourism is one we see replicated time and time again across the world, and it’s a story written into the cliffs, the sea and the sand at Varkalla Beach. Against my better judgement I arrived here on Friday morning, aware of what I was letting […]
