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!). 

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. 

The Mum­bai run was an excit­ing event for me. The reg­is­tra­tions start way in advance so there is quite a build up over the months. It was another story that I wasn’t too pre­pared and hadn’t put in any long runs in the month prior to Mum­bai. 
But I was excited, never the less.

My mom expressed her […]

A quick update… It’s been a hec­tic few weeks. My blog looks a lit­tle for­lorn. I have a tea story from Cochin in my head and I haven’t man­aged to post it. Besides run­ning a 5K in the women’s cor­po­rate rally at the Mid­night Marathon on Jan 9, I haven’t really done any long runs […]

Just back from a week long cycling trip to Goa.

We cycled over 60 kms every day over 5 days. The weather was hot and steamy. The ter­rain was up and down and mostly unpre­dictable. We crossed beaches, lit­tle towns, ham­lets, green fields, min­ing areas, hills, plains, forests and wildlife sanc­tu­ar­ies. We saw Goa like we’d never […]

I spent 3 days in Fort Cochin dur­ing the month of Octo­ber. It was a most relaxed trip where I walked by the sea, observed the fish­er­men, had some gor­geous food and dis­cov­ered that even on a small lit­tle island you can keep your­self busy… 
For me, it is prob­a­bly one of the best times of the […]

Tea hap­pens to be my favourite bev­er­age. Over the years, I’ve dis­posed off the need for milk (and sugar in most cases) to get the real taste of tea. I read this yes­ter­day while brows­ing through a book and liked it so much, I made a note of it: “Tea is quiet and […]

Into day 2 of my Fort Kochi break. Chilled out a lit­tle on day 1 and walked around a bit. I had a list of things on my agenda but decided that I wasn’t going to push myself! 
Today, I had a few inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tions includ­ing one with some­one who has been involved with main­tain­ing the […]