india

Sunday morning. Tea time. For the first time ever I looked at the Lipton label. To be more precise: my right eye wandered off due to a slight hangover, and accidentally landed on the tea bag. Where was written: Nilgiris South India. Slowly my brain started to work again, with a smelly brain fart as [...]

After I explained to you how to behave in a Japanese onsen, I feel it’s time to teach you about something else, something completely different, but equally interesting (although a little bit more annoying than diving into a hot spring). I’m talking about the Indian head bobble, also called the Indian head wobble, head tilt, [...]

For those of you who have been following me since the blog beginning – which actually only was a couple of months ago – a blogpost on the Andaman Islands might seem familiar. But for some reason I only uploaded three pictures and a couple of lines of text. I can’t remember why I didn’t [...]

Folks, I’m in a bit of a rush here. I still need to pack for my holiday in Croatia (actually in some parts of Croatia you don’t need any clothes! More on that later), I still have to finish a bit of work and I still have to please you. Important things first: pleasing you. [...]

I was listening to ‘Sunrise Over Sea’ yesterday, which you all know is one of the best records by The John Butler Trio. And I thought: let’s do a variation on that theme tomorrow. Luckily for you, yesterday’s tomorrow happens to be today. Therefore I present to you my own record: Sunrise Over Backwaters. It [...]

Ah, the Andaman Islands. Lookin’ good huh? Well, they look even better when you’re lying on Beach Number 7 or Beach Number 3 on Havelock, one of the many islands of Andaman. You have to admit the Andamanians haven’t been to creative with naming their beaches, but honestly, on Andaman you don’t want to go [...]