Hyacinth me, little comrade

The next morning, after yet another eye-wateringly good and hearty traditional breakfast, we took a short walk up to the main road for some of the more mundane aspects of travelling like buying insect repellent, bottled water and toothpaste, and finding an ATM. But in India even small off-the-beaten-track superettes are extraordinary places to explore,…

The year of the rat

Somewhere along the way, geography and maths got the better of us and somehow slipped from our otherwise meticulous planning. Where we’d initially calculated the car journey between our Karnataka and Kerala lodgings to take a lazy six hours (nice and easily doable, even at a snail’s pace), the day before leaving Coorg we realised…