Being back in Bangalore brings back floods of memories. My wife and I lived here when we had our first baby. This wasn't part of our plan, particularly: we found out we were expecting during the first week we moved here, back in late 2003. That was a challenging time for us: workwise I was […]

In total we stayed for 5 days in Kodaikanal, India. It's really not the ideal time of year to visit Kodaikanal: the Northeast Monsoon is just getting started, so you can end up staying indoors more than you'd like. But then when you're on a world tour you're inevitably going to experience imperfect timing at […]

We left Singapore from Changi airport on Tuesday night. I always enjoy flying from Changi: there's so much to see and do, and they have some great traveller-oriented features such as security at each gate rather than in a central location. Our kids came across a Kinect-based experience where you could see your outline projected […]

We've spent the last 5 days staying with our good friends, Rishad and Shefali, in Singapore. This was one of the three "must see" destinations chosen by our kids, having been picked by our daughter, Anokhi. (The others being the Great Barrier Reef (Kalan) and Machu Picchu (Zephyr).) Mainly because she loves spending time with […]

Our path to Malaysia from Cairns took us via Sydney, where we had to recheck bags and change terminal. The flight was delayed by over an hour because of a medical emergency – not on the plane itself, someone in a stretcher would be occupying a section of the plane as it flew onwards to […]

After the somewhat disappointing end to our boat tour from Airlie Beach to the Whitsundays, we licked our wounds and headed back on the road towards Cairns. Our next stop was at a very nice Bluewater Park Rest Area – a free campground on the outskirts of the boringly named Townsville. It was pretty nice […]

We continued our path northwards from Rockhampton, and did a big chunk of the drive to Mackay. We stopped for lunch at a rest area in Marlborough, which ended up being a great place to take a break. About 40km south of Mackay we found a place to stay via CamperMate in a place called […]

We arrived late Thursday morning in Brisbane: the flight took 1.5 hours, but – due to the fact Queensland doesn't observe daylight saving – we arrived at 11:40 after an 11:10 departure from Sydney. When we originally budgeted time for Australia we scheduled 5 or so days for Sydney (which were eaten into by us […]

As we'd extended our stay in New Zealand, we knew we only had one day to enjoy the fine city of Sydney. The flight from Queenstown was fairly short (3.5 hours) but really pretty: both the take-off and the landing were spectacular. On arrival we were happy – given the fact we're 5 people with […]

After spending most of the day in Christchurch, last Wednesday, we headed towards Lake Tekapo. Much of the drive was fairly flat and straight, so we made good progress despite starting out late. As we got closer to the lake the weather set in again, though – it started to rain fairly heavily – so […]