September 2018 Months after having registered, we almost forgot about the event. Somehow the wife ensured we were on top of the situation. That’s a…
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Almost at the southern tip of Sri Lanka, Mirissa is blessed with great sun, sand, surf, food, people and marine life. No wonder people from the world over choose to spend their days soaking it in. We spent our last couple of days in Sri Lanka in this lovely, buzzing beach town.
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Galle is the cultural capital of Sri Lanka. From fresh catch of fish to the best the literary world has to offer, the place has the right mix. We also visited while the Galle Literary Festival was going on so the city was teeming with literature enthusiasts and writers (some of them staying at our hotel). With travellers from the world over making Galle their home, this is a great place to explore southern Sri Lanka from.
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Despite being right in our backyard, we rarely ever considered Sri Lanka for a holiday. The civil war ended years ago and this beautiful tropical country is well on its way to heal itself and move on. We did expect sunny beaches and good food. What we found was much much more. Incredibly warm and honest people. Well behaved, clean cities. Quaint country side. A slowly but surely growing counter-culture. Lots and lots of things to do. And yes food. Fantastic food.
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For the better part of December 2017, I had to be in the US on work. Visited beautiful Cincinnati and the snowed out Wisconsin.
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Thanks to work, a small trip to Guangzhou came up. Having never been to China, this was an interesting little development. But this was a trip for me so something had to go wrong. I landed at the much larger than expected Baiyun Airport in the afternoon and was supposed to head straight to the office for a meeting that had begun earlier in the morning. Before I entered the meeting, however, I was supposed to change into my work clothes. I was on a very tight schedule.
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After the work week in Newcastle, I decided to take a a few days off and head to London. So many of my friends stay there, it would be great catching up with them. I also had to meet the wife’s sis and brother in law and their cute little kid, Arjan.
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Work beckoned me to Newcastle in the UK in the autumn of 2017. What started out incredibly gloomy turned out to be quite a fun week in this pretty little city.
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Clouds are strange. We spend most of our lives underneath them, at their mercy for rain and shine. During the rare hours that we float above them, we cannot stop but marvel at the giant floating mountains of white and grey which we see but not touch.
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Coonoor is a picture postcard town not far from Bangalore. With its tea gardens, the Nilgiri Mountain Railways and the salubrious climate, it is the sort of place I could see myself settling at. Of course, I am not the first one to have thought of that. The British established a major retreat here. The Army has a large cantonment here. And the horticulture department takes full advantage of the climate to grow exotic trees.
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