If only this was my photograph.... Yesterday I was on a safari with an objective of taking a picture much like this one, or at least of seeing them with my own eyes. However, that was not to be so as a brief rain shower followed by beaming sunshine for the remainder of the day ensured that pretty much all of the animals, be them Elephants, Tigers, Bison or Leopards stayed tucked away in their hiding places of the vast, dense jungle. All in all my safari into Per...

Feeling rejuvinated now that I'm back in Indian city-life, I bring you my 3rd blog installment from the coastal city of Mangalore. Mangalore is considerably smaller than my previous city, Mumbai, although that doesn't mean to say that it isn't still chaos on the roads - thats just India for you I guess. I got here by another sleeper coach, without air conditioning this time. Not an experience I'd like to repeat again too soon. It's a shame then that I have anoth...

Currently here on the sunny beach of Palolem, life is pretty easy. And considerably cheaper than up north in Mumbai. This is my third day here, having spent the first sleeping again thanks to the overnight sleeper coach that took around 12 hours into Margao. That was one of the most uncomfortable nights of my life, lying on an 18 inch wide matress driectly next to another 18 inch wide matress that was occupied by a large, balding Indian chap. Suspension would hav...

Hello, And so here is my first blog entry! (kind of). I had completed one about 2 days ago but the poxy internet cafe that I was in decided to delete all of my work for me. I was not too pleased. My first impressions of this hustling, bustling mega-city where ones of utter bewilderment and astonishment. Without trying to sound like every other blog about Mumbai, there really is something going on around every corner, at every single second. I arrived at the air...