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Beach-side at Mamallapuram

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

On our way from Chennai to Pondicherry we decided to stop for a few days in picturesque Mamallapuram. [read on]

Jonathan goes to Kollywood! – “That’s a Wrap!”

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

You may have heard of Bollywood, India’s giant film industry based in Bombay (Mumbai)? [read on]

Arriving in India

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

We were thrilled to score a great plane fare from Istanbul to Chennai on Air Arabia, but the cost of our savings was dealing with the following flight schedule:
We left Istanbul at 2:40am on Wednesday night/Thursday morning, landed in Sharjah (in United Arab Emirates) around 7am local time. After a thirteen hour layover we left for Chennai, India, around 8pm and landed in India at 3am local time on Friday. So, a good 24 hours of stay awake travel.

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The Best Nights of Istanbul

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

What had started out as a couchsurfing nightmare (not having our host show up then having to scramble for a backup plan) lead to a couchsurfing dream…as so often happens as negatives quickly transform into positives.  [read on]

Istanbul is…

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Alive – when our train rolled into the central Sirecki Station around 9:30am on Monday [read on]

Goodbye Bulgaria, Hello Istanbul!

Monday, October 20th, 2008

With the arrival of October our time in Voditsa, and our projects at St. James’ Park, were coming to an end. [read on]

India Welcomes Us

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Hello all, just a note to let you know that after an amazing whirlwind weekend in Istanbul we’re now safely in India.  [read on]