Eventually we had to tear ourselves away from Nusa Lembongan – Tao’s House was already fully booked for 27th May so rather than find somewhere else on Lembongan we returned More… →
Ahh, Lembongan. Bali as it might have been 30 years ago, but with wifi. Our trip to Nusa Lembongan by fast boat took about 30 minutes. We’d chosen this over More… →
Bali – the word conjures up images of white sand and turquoise water. Volcanoes and rice terraces. Tropical flowers and palm trees. Or it did for me. The reality is More… →
The flight from Singapore took less than two hours, but even from the air Java looked like a very different kind of place, its distinctively volcanic mountains and rice terraces More… →
The Tiger Airways flight that caried us from Chennai to Singapore was less than half full, so as soon as the door closed we each grabbed a row of three More… →
Watching a young Italian couple struggling to decipher a menu, it occurred to me that being British is a distinct advantage when it comes to travelling through India. For a More… →
You really feel like a resident, albeit a very temporary one, rather than a tourist when you have bought, gutted and filleted a large mackerel before 9am. I say ‘mackerel’ More… →
Half way into our stay, I still can hardly believe our luck in getting this apartment. Before we left Chennai I had fired off emails to the owners of every More… →
Unable to get seats on a train from Kanyakumari, we had to retrace the 16 miles back along the coast to Nagercoil to get a train to Madurai, an undemanding More… →
We left Kovalam on 9th January, making the short journey down to Kanyakumari on an early morning train. After a while the countryside changed from the typical Keralan scene of More… →