The end of India!
There's something so evocative about standing at the end of a huge land mass. I have to say that this was the main motivation for including...
A few days on the beach in Kovalam
When we were in Madurai preparing to leave for our Workaway project in the hills near Kodaikanal, we took the time to provisionally plan the days we would have left in...
Sholai School, near Kodaikanal, India – our first Workaway project
In a departure from my usual posts, this post is simply a series of photos taken during our two-week stay at Sholai School. Unfortunately, our time at the school was cut short after we were both...
Thanjavur, capital of the great Chola empire
We travelled to Thanjavur, formerly Tanjore, by public bus from Pondicherry via Chidambaram. The first leg of the journey was very pleasant - a two-hour drive through rural India admiring the...
Coonoor, Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India
We decided to base ourselves in Coonoor while we researched Mark’s family history (more of that in my next post) and it proved to be a good choice. It’s smaller than its neighbouring hill...
