The magical vanity fair
Date: 11 June. Location: by the pool, Palm Desert. Notable sightings: the ritzy El Paseo shops (the Rodeo Drive of the desert), a rattlesnake, a real kitchen of our own! […]
Tag Archives: twentysomething
We could not be more whitebread right now
Date: 4 June Location: on the Megabus bus from Nashville to Atlanta. Notable sightings: duelling pianos, Smashville (the home of the Nashville Predators and my new favourite word), the wrong […]
Leather & rhinestones, live from Music City
Date: 4 June Location: the couch, Nashville Downtown Hostel, Music City, Tennessee. Notable sightings: country music; the pre-CMA Fest buzz. When we were initially sketching out our US roadtrip (using […]
The pros and cons of rum
Date: 29 May Location: the balcony, out of the heavy southern rain, Inn On Ursulines, New Orleans Notable sightings: the a French Quarter, Hurricanes, beignet and bad coffee, the Lalaurie […]
The Rodeo Drive experience on Tridevi Marg
Date: 23 May Location: the peaceful Garden Of Dreams, Kathmandu. Notable sightings: you really don't want to know. And then I got sick. Oh, I've seen others suffer far worse […]
Oh, c’est la vie / Maybe something’s wrong with me
Date: 17 May Location: Fat Camp. Ok, actually yoga camp in the Neydo Monastry in the Kathmandu hills — but it really should be fat camp given how much I've […]
“Welcome to sky”
Date: 16 May Location: waiting for my turn to paraglide, the second highest peak above the Kathmandu Valley Notable sightings: the Himalayas We so like to snicker at all the […]
Cool karma collected in Kathmandu
Date: 15 May Location: the beautiful outdoor daybed, Kathmandu Guest House, Kathmandu Notable sightings: a smattering of the baby mountains of Nepal, an honest to god decent burrito. Maybe the […]
Respect Your Rhino
Date: 12 May Location: watching the sun go down over the jungle, Ghumtee Rivera Lodge, Chitwan National Park Notable sightings: one-horned rhinos! “And the bathroom situation…” This is Ravi, explaining […]
Through the vortex and into the land of silence and smiles
Date: 11 May, Mothers' Day. Location: on the road again, between Lumbini and Chitwan, Nepal. Notable sightings: the most chilled immigration imaginable; peace in the birthplace of Buddha, Lumbini, Nepal. […]
An unsettlingly big place 