Glenelg beach
The weather started to get better so I took a ride with Adelaide’s last remaining tram line, out to Glenelg, at the seaside. It’s only about a half-hour ride on the modern tram. On Sundays and public holidays they get out the old rolling stock and you can enjoy the ride in the original vintage […] Read More
Perth murals
And a look back at Perth, where I discovered a great number of beautiful murals, in side streets, back alleys and parking lots. These are to be found in Wolf lane, a tiny back alley close to my home in the CDB, that’s not only great for this art, but for the various cool coffee […] Read More
Cape of Good Hope
How could we not make a day trip to the Cape? After all this town is named for it. The Cape of good hope is basically just a rock formation along the long peninsula to the South of Cape Town. While many, including me, think that it is the Southern tip of Africa, it is […] Read More
Sunset on Table Mountain
Tired as hell from the sleepless night, and the packing and everything, I felt I still needed to do something nice with the rest of the day, so at 5pm I decided to head up to Table Mountain to watch the sunset over the ocean. A bus gets you up to the cable car station, […] Read More
Mellow Delhi
Again, like yesterday, I had no energy for sights… I went to the beautiful Lodi Park a bit South of the center. Surrounded by beautiful and clean tree-lined streets, there were a number of beautiful houses and nice gardens in the area. Obviously a better-off area. The tuk-tuk let me off at one of the gates […] Read More
Indian Middle Class
Mallory left yesterday morning, which left me with two more days in Delhi on my own. On my list a number of sights to see: temples, graves, government buildings, parks, and a street food tour… And in the end, I guess, I won’t really do much of it. I just don’t have the energy for […] Read More
The kids of Kathputli Colony
Mallory and I visited the Kathputli Colony, the biggest slum in Delhi, in the Shadipur neighborhood. Built some 50 or 60 years ago, the colony now comprises 65 acres, and is home for some 2800 families with about 40 000 people. It has a big community from Rajasthan and other ethnic or religious groups. People live in […] Read More
Last evening in Khajuraho
Another lazy day in the Radisson bubble is over. I slept in, ate, and then read a book by the pool. Some seriously needed downtime. In the end, I did not rent a bike to go out into the countryside, I did not book that tour to the waterfalls and the canyon nearby. I was […] Read More
Out of ‘town’
Mallory and I took a short stroll out of ‘town’, from the main street with all the shops into the old part of the village, with a few houses and then mostly fields with cows, pigs and other animals, roaming around freely. We passed a temple where a concert was held, talked to a couple […] Read More
Ganges walk
We woke up and headed over to one of the recommendations in the Lonely Planet: Brown Bread Bakery. They have a nice roof top restaurant, serve great breakfast – any German specialties from bread to Kässpätzle – and have a wifi. Which attracts the other tourists, too. There, we met up two other travelers, Ceres, […] Read More