Hello from quarantined India! What in the hell happened?! When last I was writing to you, I’d celebrated new year and Christmas and was well into the routine of 2020. Right now I’m hiding in my apartment in solitary confinement, Read more
Hello! Namaste! My first year in India was filled with wonder and awe, providing for good blog content. However, now that cows being in the roads and the air being filled with incense have become normality, blogging has become more Read more
I have a new view from a new balcony in a new flat in a new part of Goa. Wanna see? Of course, non of it is new in any objective way. This flat and balcony have been here for Read more
Read about the stranger who threatened to punch me in the face, the highs and lows of the past year, and find out what’s ahead in 2019. Plus lots of cute pictures.
Time is a funny thing, isn’t it? All that can be experienced and lived by a soul, out of the infinity of possibilities and variations, is ordered into a nice neat line for us – a line of moment after Read more
It’s an ingrained part of British culture to hold one’s feelings to oneself. Brits don’t commonly eat together, they’re rarely open to meaningful conversations and they never ever intrude into another person’s personal affairs. Welcome to India. Where are you Read more
Indian drivers make such idiotic decisions that sometimes I secretly want them to get knocked just a little bit… I’m so glad to get that off my chest. So, recently I had the pleasure of showing a close friend around Read more
A big, fat, dark-brown grain of rice appears in the exact same spot on the floor under my Dalek painting every morning when I wake up. To people from warmer climates the problem is clear. It seems that an OCD-suffering Read more
London is different. After getting off the plane, I need to kill a few hours before any of my ex-housemates get home to let me in (they’ve very kindly offered to put me up for free), so I decide to Read more
On the main junction connecting the road to the Goan capital of Panjim to the tourist strip of Candolim, a calf sat happily on the road. It wasn’t in the middle of the road, just to the side. Of course, Read more