Why You Should Beware When Accepting A Volunteer Placement
I mentioned in a previous post that I volunteered at Sabala for a couple of months. I mentioned that this is a wonderful organisation, dedicated to empowering women and assisting […]
Category Archives: My Travels
Udaipur & Mumbai, Round 2
Udaipur So, we’re trying to get down to Bijapur (Karnataka) in time for my Product Design Development internship with Sabala… What we’ve discovered is that, it’s pretty much impossible to […]
Pushkar
Pushkar is a holy Hindu pilgrimage town, which is special because it is home to one of very few Brahma temples in the world. Infact, we were told, the name […]
Jaipur
We didn’t actually really want to come to Jaipur as we had only really heard negative things, but I have to say I was quite pleasantly surprised. We arrived to […]
Camel Trekking in Jaisalmer
We chose to book our camel trek with our hotel, as the reviews matched those of Trotters and various other companies, the staff were amazingly helpful, and it was obviously […]
Jaisalmer
One thing you should know about Jaisalmer: it’s HOT! 46-degrees (maximum) we were dealing with here! Ouch. Thankfully though, it wasn’t humid so it was more bearable than you’d have […]
Jodhpur
It was pretty late in the evening when we arrived by bus to Jodhpur (AKA Blue City). We checked in at Shivam Paying Guesthouse, which sits just at the bottom […]
Udaipur
Amazing, colourful, beautiful Udaipur. A Dream. This is the first place we have visited in Rajasthan and we were not disappointed. We arrived really early in the morning, so thankfully […]
Why I Didn’t Enjoy Ahmedabad, India
Not that I gave it much of a chance, but Ahmedabad is not a place I enjoyed… Roads swamped with very little else but rickshaws, I wonder how, with all […]
Mumbai
Finally, we made it Mumbai!! On arriving, (we got off stupidly early in Thane and had to get another train to CST), we found a power socket where we could […]
Phone Repairs on the Streets of Mumbai
The on/off/lock button on Brendan’s HTC phone had stopped working, so seeing a Phone Repairs stall in Mumbai on our way to dinner, we foolishly thought it could be a […]
Being a Host at a Bollywood Premier Party
So, we were walking down Causeway and were approached by some guy carrying a “Bollywood Extras” card, as they usually do. He said that he was looking for Western […]
From Oceans With Love 