Travel can be transformative experience. Alongside the actual trip (the air miles, unfamiliar dorm beds, indecipherable languages and alien landscapes), there’s a more personal journey. Foreign cities, different cultures and liberating getaways are often where we discover things we never knew about ourselves, or do things we never knew we would, or would dare to, back in the comfort and routine of home. (more…)
Spending six weeks in India not as a tourist gives me a rank to criticize some false assumptions made by people who never crossed Indian border and are just talking what they’ve seen on tv or heard from the 5th source. And of course confirm some true facts providing ‘been there, seen it, experienced’. (more…)
Merry Christmas everyone!
24th of December 2013, woke up in Samits family house in Sangli, India. +35c, clear breeze and colourful saris outside. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas? Not even close. More like beginning to look a lot like summer holiday when school’s over. But we won’t let Christmas go unnoticed so easy- ‘if Mohammed doesn’t come to the hill, the hill will come to Mohammed’! According to these wise words, me and Giedre joined our forces together and brought Christmas spirit to Tapkire house. (more…)
This post is delayed by a week. Explanation: Goa got me so occupied that laptop was abandoned and forgotten… Please don’t judge.
Mumbai- Pune- Sangli- Goa, route leading towards the southern point of our destination, where we can finally tick off the last box of a hardly ending ‘India to do’ list- sea, sun and sandy beaches! (more…)
After 28 hour journey we successfully reached Mumbai. Finally! Don’t get me wrong, train journey was very smooth but laying in the same 3 foot square for 28 hours makes your bits and peaces a bit sour.
The minute we got out of a train, strong humidity wave hit straight in the face. No complaints here either, as heat was exactly what we were craving all the time when up in North. And heat is not the only thing that makes South different from North. So far, haven’t seen an accessive amount of men peeing or spitting in the streets, not many wondering around cows either. and best of all, tuk tuk’s have fitted in meters, so you know what you pay for (and no exhausting bargaining/arguing about the price)! (more…)
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