Year: 2010

  • Moment worth capturing

    Emma Horne who is a Travel Advisor of Nexxtop India Tours (A Division of Himalayan River Runners)Mobile: + 91 (0) 9810579143 sent the following picture on email today about her recent adventures in some of our favourite tiger parks. Contact her if you want to arrange a safari but this picture she sent along with…

  • Seasonality

    If there is such a word it means the joy of seeing and tasting foods in the right season. In my youth we would await the arrival of baby cucumbers to signal the arrival of spring, crunchy and firm like kakari, or the first watermelon when the summer months were approaching. Fresh artichokes in the autumn…

  • Hot water and geezers

    You say the word “geyser” pronounced “geezer” and you think of Iceland again, this time spouting hot water, and not ash,  naturally. You say the word again in the east of London and you get the image of an old man with odd ways. In Europe you turn the tap on and hot water comes out.…

  • Barrows

    Barrows are a memory of my childhood. I used to go to the big fruit and vegetable market in the old part of  Nicosia with my mother and dotted around the big market place were barrows selling fresh produce. They are gone now- eclipsed by the shops with neon lights, the supermakets which sell everything…

  • Mmm mustard

    Have you looked out on to the fields in India and found comfort in that blanket of yellow which paints the horizon and adds colour to the sky? Mustard is very special and so I am going to tell you a little bit about it. There are three types of mustard yellow, brown and oriental.…

  • Have wheels will travel

    In Parmesan’s case this was a ten kilometre round trip on his bike every day. It is a tall order for anyone and I would like to believe that it is the reason he is so slim and so well turned out.So to make life a little easier we have acquired wheels for him and…

  • Daily Dump

    Yes there is a lot of that going on here in India but this is one with a difference and one well worth talking about. We have been doing it for years and at this point don’t you all want to fall about laughing.Actually I am talking about a slightly different dump and this involves…

  • New Delhi Railway station and Lost railway children

    I want to share a story with you that is close to my heart and which has made me view things here in a wholly different light. Did you know the railway station raises children ? Not as we would expect from a mum and a dad but because there is no mum and no dad and there…

  • The deserts of Rajastan are in the air

    Last night at about 900 pm I went out with the dog and while I did not capture for you the lightning and the thunder I can tell you that the tall eucalyptus trees were swaying wildly in a wind that was full and I mean full of dust particles. You could sense them and…

  • The 15 Minute Morning walker

    An advertisement in the paper had the testimony of 15 people whose lives have been changed by their 15 minute walk. Oh I thought a group I can relate to and hungrily read on only to discover that this was a machine where you lay down put your feet on it and it walked you 10,000…