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!).

I was out last evening and it was pretty late when I was catch­ing up on my tweets when I saw a post about blasts in Mum­bai. After that, there was no sleep for a cou­ple of hours as I was fol­low­ing the reports com­ing in from dif­fer­ent folks. It’s been numb­ing to say the least. […]

An Aus­tralian woman often described as the world’s old­est blog­ger has died at the age of 108 after post­ing a final mes­sage about her ail­ing health but how she sang “a happy song, as I do every day.” Not that I want to live to be 108, but I can quite pic­ture myself in my old […]

After sev­eral failed attempts at get­ting Air­tel (no ports), Sify (no con­nec­tiv­ity in my area), Hath­way (no response), I finally set­tled on Tata Wi-Max (VSNL) who got back to me very promptly say­ing they could give me a con­nec­tion. Sur­pris­ingly, the folks at TI were super effi­cient. Not only was my con­nec­tion okayed in a […]

The gang pos­ing atop Brah­ma­giri hill Spent last week­end in cool Coorg with a bunch of travel and blog enthu­si­asts — some who I was already famil­iar with and a bunch of new faces. It was great to meet the folks whose blogs I had been fol­low­ing for a while now — Arun and Mridula amongst others. […]

I realised that loads of links on my travel page were not work­ing. Finally got around to fix­ing them and have also updated my 2007 travel sec­tion. I still need to add some of my lat­est travel reports from Agumbe and Bhutan. I often have peo­ple email­ing me or leav­ing com­ments ask­ing for sug­ges­tions etc. […]

Why is this so hard, I am think­ing? It should be as easy as walk­ing in to the ven­dor, get­ting the infor­ma­tion and then the con­nec­tion. But if life was that easy, this wouldn’t be India, would it?! So here I am, still strug­gling to find a broad­band con­nec­tion at home, after Air­tel can­celled my line […]

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