by Kirsty | October 15, 2013 | India, Photo Essay
A Summary of our Trip to India with links to Diary Entries and Photographs It’s taken a while but here is a roundup of the journey through India that we made earlier this year. Back in January, we visited one of our favourite countries – “India again”. Those of you...
by Kirsty | May 27, 2013 | Burma/Myanmar, Festivals & Celebrations
There was a full moon on Friday and here in Burma that meant a public holiday. The full moon in May is known as the Full Moon of Kason (May in Burmese) and it is a particularly significant one as on this day Buddhists celebrate Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and...
by Kirsty | May 26, 2013 | Burma/Myanmar
When we’re in the mood for somewhere pub-like with air conditioning, bar stools, football on the TV and over-priced food and drink (except between 3 and 7pm when the price of a Happy Hour pitcher of beer is pretty hard to beat), we head to the ex-pat hangout 50th...
by Kirsty | May 12, 2013 | Burma/Myanmar
04 to 06 May 2013 Last weekend, we escaped a hot and sweaty Yangon and headed for the Myanmar coastal resort of Ngwe Saung on an office holiday! We’d only been at work for two days (it should have been three but our start date of 1st May was a public holiday here!)...
by Kirsty | April 20, 2013 | India, Photo Essay
A journey to Orchha in India’s Madhya Pradesh Following a couple of days in Gwalior, we travelled to sleepy Orchha. First, we took the train to Jhansi and from there we had to negotiate a fair price for the 40-minute auto-rickshaw ride from Jhansi train station...
by Kirsty | March 28, 2013 | India
Beneath the Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya and other things to do when you visit Bodh Gaya We arrived by train in the town of Gaya, a major transport hub and the nearest significant town to Bodh Gaya. From there, we took an auto-rickshaw to the small settlement which has...
