January 2010
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Video & audio
Just to let you know that we’ve updated Sravana with a few raw video and audio clips we were unable to post from India.
We’ll be adding more photos to the Sravana set on Flickr when we get the opportunity.
Mathias and Emma are selecting their photos and videos and we’ll add them here too.
Enjoy.
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Zurich
Back to Switzerland after a smooth and comfortable flight. We slept through most of it, which is one of the good things of travelling west. We won’t drop the way we did at Varkala.
We’re not saying much, still dazzled and dreamy, our eyes full of south India’s bright and colourful light. Smiling as the sounds of waves and birds, the morning mantras and the rickshaw horns still...
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On the point to board flight LX155 back to our... →
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Driving down to Colaba
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Changing our seat allocation on the iPhone to row... →
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Seated at gate 1B ready to board flight IC664 to... →
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Last night
It is our last night in Goa. Tomorrow, we head for Mumbai and our flight home early Tuesday morning.
Gosh time has flown by fast… no regrets though, as we made the most of every moment, living in present.
We all feel very fortunate to have had such an opportunity, and we are ready for more…
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Ayurvedic massage
I had an amazing experience this morning: a traditional ayurvedic massage at Kailas, the Bhakti Kutir’s ayurveda center.
It was the first time I experienced a four hand massage. All in perfect synchronisation, rubbing, pulling and poking. It is not of the relaxing kind, but more of the energizing one.
After the hot leave stamps, you end up completely bathed in oil, from head to toe.
A...
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Close your eyes and listen
To the soft mantras of Daniella’s yoga group to the back, the fading Kerala Express’ horn from beyond the hills far away, crushing waves to the west, night birds songs everywhere, distant cerebral ambiant electronic beats from the beach way below, short motor rrickshaw horns and laughs from the main road, an unexpected firework, a cracking tree, a scurrying rodent, dog’s barks, a...
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WatchBest kite flying we had in Goa
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Slow
Lazy feeling today. Patnem is quiet as it seems many people have left.
Even the sea feels lazy in the way she brushes up the beach in long slow waves.
Little sand crabs pop up and scatter sideways all around, regaining their territory.
How sweet can it get?
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Anjuna flea market circa 2010
It certainly still is a market, but the fleas have long fled.
It’s organisation is close to an open air music festival. Paddy field are used as parkings, and the path up to the original market grounds is lined with stalls of the same boring paraphenelia.
Worse. 9/10th of it feels like a supermarket. Organised and oversized as a supermarket, dull as a supermarket. Same things, over and...
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“Fire is a good servant, but a bad master. Save your trees.”
– Forestry Dpt, Goa
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on our way to Anjuna's flea market (long trip... →
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WatchOn our way to Anjuna
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Room 11d night sounds
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Jungle night
Last night was alive. I slipped into bed with the kids upstairs around 3:00a amongts the strange shadows, and the howling, scratching, pecking and clawing noises that fill up the night.
Imagination runs high at thoses hours, and true enough, I was unable to explain most of what we heard.
If it wasn’t for the nightly dogs howling cascade, we would have slept throught. It’s as if all...
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