In all the while I’ve been in Chennai through countless hopping visits on family holidays en route to elsewhere and through two jobs, the last two years that I spent there were probably the only time I ever, to some extent at least, liked being in the city ( Read more... )

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The local wing of the yhai had a moonlight trek two weekends ago. It was as lovely as it sounds.

We drove up to Skandagiri, a hill outside the city, opposite the more famous Nandi hills.


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... but this was on the West coast. Almost all the way down to the end of it at Trivandrum. My friend got married there on Saturday ( Read more... )

These pics should ideally have gone up well, ages ago. But I’m lazy ( Read more... )

Has turned out to be another one of those places where I've been but absolutely must go again. It's beautiful.

It's tiny, and doesn't even have a bus station - you get off on the road, before a bridge and walk down a lane into the village.

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I went to the seaside for the weekend, which sounds a little silly when I say it considering I live on the coast. Well, I went further down the coast about 7 kms short of Mahabalipuram, and had fun ( Read more... )

These are by now a couple of months old, but I decided I wanted them up here - pretty, pretty pics from the Ladakh holiday in June.

I'm a little distressed though that we didn't indulge in foodie pics. I'm guessing I was overwhelmed:) This was after all the long, long desired holiday to Ladakh:))

( All those pretty mountain places... monasteries... a lake... and a few yaks... )