As we wander, we wonder
My friend A. was thrilled by some of the virginal beaches of the Philippines she had recently visited, so she asked me if we could replicate that experience in Bali. Well I didn’t want to disappoint her as I knew that this was probably not going to happen to the places that we were going […]
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This extract is based loosely on a few true stories, with some details embellished and amended to protect privacies. It is written with the objective of reflecting the reality for millions of people in this world, and not to focus on any one single individual. ‘His face explained his fatigue with life. There was not […]
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This is the Windows of France collection. My fetish for this kind of thing is explained in my previous post of the same theme. If you have the same affliction, you may enjoy this. If not, just let this pass. It doesn’t harm anyone, I promise…
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This post will be about the villa we selected in Jimbaran. This was for a ladies holiday between myself and my good friend A. and we stayed here a few months ago, so it’s all fresh in my mind. So this time our route was Ubud – Seminyak – Jimbaran. The Bali trend for me […]
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This extract is based loosely on a few true stories, with some details embellished and amended to protect privacies. It is written with the objective of reflecting the reality for millions of people in this world, and not to focus on any one single individual. ‘She was articulate and spoke an educated style of English. […]
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I have a doors-and-windows-and-arches fetish. It is so delightful that different countries and cultures manifest their own interpretation of how a door and window should be fashioned. So there will a few variations of this post from different parts of the world. I’ve also just realised that this blog is a great way for me […]
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I was first introduced to the Angsana brand in the Maldives and was really impressed. It’s the younger sister to Banyan Tree so think what Miu Miu is to Prada or what DKNY is to Donna Karan – affordable luxe. When we were planning to go for our end of year retreat to Vietnam in […]
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I’ve often told my close friends that while Delhi was my First Love, Ankara was my Big Love. In the past year or so, I have managed to quell my hunger for this place somehow better than I had since I last left the country in November 2013. I think part of it was because […]
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True to this category of posts, I will let these photos speak for itself. This is where we went for our honeymoon in 2014. I will write more about it under Travel Trivia eventually, but for now it’s all about the sights.
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My friends from London and I landed up in Mougins last summer somewhat by accident. We had planned a reunion in the South of France a full one year before it actually happened and the outcome is a perfect example of the old saying ‘humans plan, but God decides’. By January 2017, we booked a […]
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10 years ago, I spent a year in Geneva. I went there for all the wrong reasons and when I pursue a path with dishonest intentions, I often lose out. My official narrative wasn’t entirely untrue but I would say featured less than 30% of the reasons why I wanted to go. Indeed I […]
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The first thing I do every time I come to Bombay (I know it’s time I call it Mumbai but there is just this pretentious sound to Bombay that still thrills me) is to scour through all the shop displays in Goodearth, Fab India and Nicobar, take photographs and go through their online catalogues to […]
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Candidasa is about 1 1/2 drive from Denpasar airport (though this is on a good, traffic less day – please plan for a buffer time if you need to be punctual). It is a seaside town which sits on the East of the island and was apparently one of the initial resort areas of the […]
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The First Time For a long time now, it has been in my mind to discuss my very first experience of India. Initially the experience was so overwhelming that I couldn’t quite fathom articulating the enormity of it all. After awhile I began to just accept that it was merely a cliched response of most […]
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My husband and I are in an endless debate about who is capable of taking better photographs, each claiming superiority over the other. Privately I will admit that he has a better eye than me. I try to be more ‘fancy’ but he has stronger intuition. I have to qualify this post with a strong […]
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I’m starting this category with Bali although I know it’s a place that is totally overdone in every possible way. Most visited, most blogged, most reviewed, most exploited, most — fill in the blank. The thing is, it’s one of those places that I have the most record of in my laptop as […]
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I am plunging into this without a clear direction of where it will end, but with a hope that I can express a collection of authentic experiences and reflections that could be of some value to people. Writing used to be a childhood companion but at some point, we lost the need for each […]
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Looking for The Higher Self 