Admittedly we were a bit anxious about the Andamans. All we really knew was that a guy from Alabama was killed there by an endangered tribe in late 2018 – fairly recently in the wider scheme of things. Confronted by all manner of moral dilemmas about whether we should go, but with no intention of…
We knew an extra special remembrance date would hit the calendar smack bang in the middle of the trip and so we’d aimed to be as far off the grid, and in the most spellbindingly exotic of locations, for when it did. Tucked in a tiny eastern pocket of the Bay of Bengal (technically still…
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,…
I think India so far is all about surprises, you just never know what’s around the corner. Yesterday morning after coffee we explored on foot more of Siolim, wandering down the twisting orange powdery lanes towards Chapora Fort. Around each corner was something new, and it seems a lot of work already starting on the…