Hi folks! As I type this Vicky is catching some sleep before her flight back to the UK tomorrow. I've been charged with writing a brief summary of the last three weeks, when I joined her for the last moments of her adventure.I now realise that the brief summary has turned out to be anything but brief, so good luck.Cheers,Jack -------Momos, The Pong and a Tea-Fuelled Tiger HuntWe ate vegetable momos, we ate chicken momos. We ate beef and we ate pork momos. Momos ...

My experiences over the last couple of weeks have been extremely varied. After finishing with the final AVI project in Kerala I headed up to an ashram in the hills of Neyyar Dam (also in Kerala) to do some yoga and meditation. For a week my life followed the strict ashram routine: 5.30am - wake up bell 5.50am - I realise I've fallen back to sleep and get dressed at record speed. 6am - Satsang; meditation chanting and a daily reading. Meditation for me usu...

My work has come to an end….. I can't quite believe that as I write this my 5 months of working with AVI projects is drawing to a close. Its been a busy two weeks since Martha and I parted in Kovalam. I was in Chennai for a week working on the website of an organisation called ASSEFA, then I visited two NGO's based just outside of Madurai in a district called Theni and this week I have been back in Trivandrum (Kerala) with an organic farming project called ...

Vicky and Martha's Keralan adventures I have just arrived back after ten days of fun and hilarity in the Keralan sunshine with my friend Martha. I'm now back in Chennai sitting in my cockroach infested hotel room scrolling through all our photos….it feels like a million miles away…. Chilling out It all started in Trivandrum just over two weeks ago when the walls of Wild Palms Homestay were filled with the overexcited screams of two reunited friend...

Pondicherry - C'est fantastique!For the last week I have been living in a little dream world where, although I know I am still in India, I keep imagining that I have actually nipped across for a holiday in the south of France.….welcome to Pondicherry, the Indian travellers dream!That may sound a bit OTT but Pondicherry really does give you a break from some of India's less appealing eccentricities; I'm thinking of cows, rubbish, pollution and pushy auto dri...