by Shazar | Sep 3, 2021 | Food, India, travel
Food Glorious Food – Hot chappatis and chai!! A challenge we all face when travelling can be the food. It’s such a basic comfort – and travelling can show us very quickly how attached we can be to our usual diet. “Where’s my muesli? Where’s my...
by Shazar | Sep 3, 2017 | Health, India
Being sick in a different land has its own challenges. A wretched persistent UTI coupled with a dose of Hubli well water runs.. mmm. Sometimes I am glad of the medical world. Despite my gung ho attitude about all things pharmaceutical at most times. Tonight after a...
by Shazar | Aug 28, 2016 | consciousness
Tonight is Saturday. . being a well trained Westerner I decided perhaps tonight was the night to enjoy some wine. Those of you who know me well .. also know I appreciate a good red. That’s not so easy to get here in India and requires some intrepid adventuring to...
by Shazar | Aug 14, 2016 | consciousness, India, Life Skills, travel
It is said “Feel the fear and do it anyway!” How many times in my life have I had to do that? It never stops – it doesn’t change, confidence is not a birthright, or something you put on and leave on – it is to be stepped into each time a...
by Shazar | Aug 10, 2016 | India, travel
Landing in India late in the evening – as usual the Passport Control guys were a bit grumpy and authoratative.. but that’s their job. I didn’t have the exact address of where I was going so that caused a little “humphy-ness”.. but once...
