Getting lost on the roads less traveled
Sometimes getting lost is the best means of finding your way. We’re six weeks in to our Great Asian adventure, and with some successes and failure (plus a ton of […]
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What language barrier?
“Hello, can I help me?” asked the smiling, well-intended, albeit language-challenged young woman at the Vietnam Airlines office in Chengdu, China. “Why, yes, you can,” was my answer, and away […]
» Read moreSaved by strangers at Chongqing hotpot
The bright lights and red façade attracted us to the first-floor hotpot restaurant not far from Chongqing’s Liberation Monument. The steady stream of customers in and out of the place […]
» Read moreMalaria madness…fevers, chills and the cookie doctor
In my altered state of malaria-induced fogginess, New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport presented itself as an oblong-shaped mass of concrete and steel, a visually skewed version of the modern airport […]
» Read moreAmbushed by India…all of it
I was not prepared for you, India. I had expected to tolerate you, coexist, to survive you. Armed with countless stories of poverty, heat, struggles, illness and attitudes that run […]
» Read moreThe madness, magic and mystery of India
Crimson sarees trimmed with sparkling gold thread. Chartreuse turbans perched on men with time-lined faces and enormous bushy moustaches. Peacock blue skies and fiery sunsets over caramel coloured sand dunes. […]
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