Eas­ily a place I could go back to : again and again. Fort Kochi. Wan­der around. Soak in the sights and sounds. Famil­iar cor­ners. Tashi cafe, the fish­ing nets and the synagogue.

The Tour of Nil­giris mean­ders through the famed Blue Moun­tains of South India immers­ing you in the stun­ning land­scape, bio-diversity, cul­ture and her­itage of Kar­nataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

On July 24/25th, we headed out to Coorg and Wayanad with Mud­dy­Boots (a new adven­ture com­pany) for a spice coun­try cycling trail. Here is an account of the trip.

A quick update: Five folks I know are in the run­ning along with their part­ners: Charu and Vamsi — Charu is a fel­low travel blog­ger and always on the way some­where or plan­ning to! Rohini and Tau­tik — An intre­pid trav­eller cou­ple who have cov­ered 18,673 km across 20 states in 114 days in their […]

Of course we all know what hap­pens on Ban­ga­lore roads when it rains. But I was the least pre­pared for the events to unfold that night. After din­ner with friends at Indi­rana­gar I set off towards Kora­man­gala. It had been rain­ing for around an hour but I didn’t really real­ize how bad things were outside. […]

The weather was hot and balmy. It was our last day in Ker­ala and we were look­ing for­ward to spend­ing the night on a houseboat.

On my pre­vi­ous trips to Ker­ala, I’ve only got­ten within drool­ing dis­tance of a house­boat. It’s a rather expen­sive propo­si­tion. There was one time when Steph was down from Switzer­land and we did some sight­see­ing on a small boat, and then went around in a lit­tle canoe (that was fun!).

“But let there be spaces in your togeth­er­ness and let the winds of the heav­ens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a mov­ing sea between the shores of your souls.” ~~ Kahlil Gibran

In my per­fect world, I will be sur­rounded by a lot of teapots of vary­ing shapes and sizes. There will be cups of tea in dif­fer­ent flavours wait­ing to be tasted, tea strain­ers, tea pots, ket­tles and the intox­i­cat­ing smell of the dark brew everywhere.