India
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As a part of my short North India trip last year, one item on my must-see/do list was to ride the toy train from Kalka to Shimla. The History. The railway line was built in 1898 in order to connect the summer capital of the British Raj, Shimla, with the rest of the Indian rail…
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I have recently read Autobiography of a Yogi and it is the most remarkable and spiritually moving book I have ever read. Here is an excerpt from this profound, life affirming book. There will be many more excerpts to come. Taken from page 171. The knowledge of ‘good and evil’ promised Eve by the ‘serpent,…
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AYURBALANCE MASSAGE COURSE In December 2017, I attended the Ayurbalance massage course with the company Rasovai in Goa. It is a twelve-day course and it was really enjoyable. The course was created and run by Chetan, a lovely, gentle, kind Indian man, who was really great at his craft! On day one, in the morning…
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A Boy Named Brumm
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Goa Rescue Stories Part One When my children were younger, I think probably the twins were around seven years old and Hope nine, Peter and I used to take them down to Colva beach just before sunset for a bit of a play. Colva had a small, pretty unremarkable, play park which the UK health…
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Manifestation Stories #1 Years ago, in Goa, I think around 2008, I realised that my life needed more direction. I couldn’t keep running away to India to escape my horrid neighbourhood situation. I felt all over the place and unsettled. I needed to find some answers but I had no idea where to start. I…
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In May 2017, I was lucky enough to have a short visit to Srinagar in Kashmir. My friend, who I’d been travelling in India with, owned a houseboat on Dal Lake and that was my home for 4 nights. Usually, a tourist trip on Dal lake lasts around three hours, or so, but my friend, (who actually…
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I knew he wouldn’t live to be an old man, my old flame, Peter from Goa. But it came as such a shock when, one sunny morning in Benaulim, a village in South Goa, I walked into Pedros restaurant full of the cheers of the day, ordered my coffee and was told he had ‘expired’.…
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Grannies Do Goa ( and no, it’s not porn)!
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Follow mine and Jayne’s journey to Goa as we leave our kids for the first time and take our own special trip together.
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