Kerala Spice Garden Tour
Elizabeth Soule
On the last day of our Kerala trip, we travelled from the resort near Periyar back to the airport, which is about a four and a half hour drive. The…
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A Pause Amidst the Cardamom
Part of the adventure of travel is how the best laid plans can be thwarted by an unexpected twist. In our case, the twist was a nasty round of norovirus.…
Alappuzha Houseboat Tour
The waterways of Alappuzha (also known as Alleppey) are a series of canals, backwaters, and lagoons that stretch from the Arabian Sea inland toward Kottayam. These waterways are central to…
Fort Kochi
With jet lag still waking us up in the early morning hours, our 5am trip to the airport to catch our flight to Kerala didn’t even seem that early. The…
Bidri Art and Best Briyani in Bangalore
Mervin’s brother Mike came to visit for two days. Since we had no other plans, we decided in the afternoon to go visit some handicraft shops and look at the…
Settling In
While arriving at four in the morning sounds awkward, it does seem to be a good way to get over jet lag quickly. After about four hours of sleep we…
Halfway around the world in 24 hours
Long distance flights feel like a kind of teleportation to me. Once you are up in the air and the window shades close, time seems to bend. There is the…