Tag Archives: Kerala

Threads of India – ii) Slave to the Tea Bush

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

It is evening the cicadas and monkeys have cooled off. We sit having a drink with our hosts, Viktor and Ranjini Dey on their veranda, fending off the affectionate advances of their one-year-old boxer. They ran a tea plantation for … Continue reading →

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Threads of India – i) The Western Ghats

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

The answer to a good holiday is to throw money at it. This should safeguard against our typical holiday experiences that include Starvation in Serbia, Starvation in Senegal and even Starvation in Alsace-Lorraine which we neither of us thought possible. … Continue reading →

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