First actual travellers blog entry. We're about 2 hours drive outside of Chennai and by the sea. But you can't swim because it's rough as anything with big rip currents and a rocky bed. We saw a sign saying "You're life is precious! DO NOT SWIM". So that was that. Yesterday we walked down the path beside the shore temple (one of the main attractions here). It was a long path, the sand filled with little bits of plastic and at least a mile of stalls jus...

Sitting in the BA lounge at Heathrow watching the planes take off and the sky turn pink. One of the perks of having a frequent flyer father is somewhere nice to sit and wait. Although I am getting odd looks as I'm clearly not a businessman. I had to resort to socks and sandles as socks and flip flops is plain lunacy, I didn't want cold feet and I'm not taking any trainers. However, it's stressing me out A LOT, almost as bad as if I was wearing crocs. (No offence...

Sitting in the BA lounge at Heathrow watching the planes take off and the sky turn pink. One of the perks of having a frequent flyer father is somewhere nice to sit and wait. Although I am getting odd looks as I'm clearly not a businessman. I had to resort to socks and sandles as socks and flip flops is plain lunacy, I didn't want cold feet and I'm not taking any trainers. However, it's stressing me out A LOT, almost as bad as if I was wearing crocs. (No offence...

It's now less than a week until I go. The last days in Oxford for nine months, and then I'm here permanently (to all intents and purposes) for another four years. It feels a bit extreme. I find myself wondering about the most absurd things. How much will the kitten have grown when I get back? Will the coalition have collapsed? Will there be the same staff at Branca? Procrastinatory thinking. Recently I heard on the radio that people aren't afraid of traveling, ...