Modified morning coffee routine
May 24, 2025 in India ⋅ 🌙 34 °C
Marsala Chai, street-side in Jaipur.
Video attachment gives you the vibe! (last attachment).
Taj Mahal, Agra
May 25, 2025 in India ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C
It's official, we are in love. With the Taj Mahal.
Simply breathtaking.
Shah Jahan sure fell hard for his love Mumtaz Mahal!
Agra Fort, Agra
May 25, 2025 in India ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C
Impressive. Built in the 16th century by Akbar, more than 4,000 workers over eight years. The final 6 years of Shah Jahan's life were spent imprisoned in the fort where he had a view of his belovedRead more
Street Food, Agra.
May 25, 2025 in India ⋅ 🌙 30 °C
Delicious street food in local bazaar. Will try to recreate the Tikka Aloo, yummy!!!
Agra to Kharjaraho
May 26, 2025 in India ⋅ 🌙 32 °C
They say India was built through the railways. Today, we got to spend 8 hours on a second-class sleeper service, an eye opener!
Facilities are basic, to say the least. Train was nearly 1km long,Read more
Temples of Kharjuraho
May 27, 2025 in India ⋅ ⛅ 37 °C
Made a UNESCO World heritage sight in 1986, the 11 remaining hindi temples of Kharjuraho are impressive, very well preserved, gardens immaculate, and the compound very well looked after. Dedicated toRead more
KHARJURAHO, Village life
May 28, 2025 in India ⋅ ⛅ 36 °C
Wandered through a village today. Caste system still very prevalent. Each caste lives separately. Sanitaton is basic,still using water wells. Water to house project now provides water to mostRead more
Cochin (Kochi), South India
May 30, 2025 in India ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
A complete contrast to northern states, green and lush, less rubbish ?! , more progressive. Loving the relaxed vibe of Cochin. The monsoon has arrived early, so it's cool and wet.
A day of churches (Read more
Thekkady, Kaerela, Southern India
May 31, 2025 in India ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
From parched desert to lush mountain tea estates, rubber plantations, pineapple and banana plantings.
Periyar district is renowned for its spices and tea plantations. Early Monsoon continues to causeRead more
Thekkady.
June 1, 2025 in India ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Spices everywhere. A gentle day of wandering the spce farms and doing not much. Another massage might be in order this afternoon.
Alleppey, Houseboat
June 2, 2025 in India ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Cruising the lakes and back canels around Alleppy, chilled day taking in the sights of life on and around the water. Early Monsoon has led to flooding, which made the trip to getting on a boat a bitRead more
Tea Plantations
June 2, 2025 in India ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Tea, tea,...coffee!
Hillsides have been manicured over decades into neat tiered plantations as far as the eye can see. The robusta coffee planting is a little less structured, still all hand pickedRead more
Kumarakom, India
June 3, 2025 in India ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Our last day in India - It's been an absolute blast.
Land of huge contrasts, beautiful and brutal, scorched desert and lush forests, friendly and reserved, bizarre and truly ingenious, confrontingRead more
Home again, Coogee Beach
June 5, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Picked up the Bruce's from the long-term carpark. Disorientated without the honking horns and manic traffic of India! Parked up for a few days of domestic jobs, then heading inland to catchup withRead more
Busselton, WA
June 9, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Great couple of days catching up with old school friend Adele Lubcke. We're back on the coast at Busselton - a couple of days fishing on the agenda.
Busselton boasts the longest jetty in the southernRead more
Eagle Bay, WA
June 10, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
What to do on a cold, windy, wet day???
Wine and dine with a view. Fabulous lunch at Eagle Bay's WISE winery and distillery.
Fish!
June 11, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Julie 5/ Alex 1.
Fun couple of hours on the Busselton Jetty.
OK,....so they weren't exactly whoppers, but we caught some snapper, whiting possibily a pilchard or bream.
Southern Wheatbelt, WA
June 12, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Popping back (500kms) to see a must see landmark( watch this space!!!!). Driving through the Wheatbelt of southern Western Australia - on route passed by dozens of loaded road trains carryingRead more
Wave Rock Hyden, WA
June 13, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
How cool is this!? Worth the 500km diversion.
Weird landscape, salt lakes, dead forests, and granite, surrounded by WA fertile Wheatbelt,.. go figure.
Mulka Caves, WA
June 13, 2025 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
Ancient aboriginal cave art. Lots of differing stories as to the who, and why, but thought to possibly be a coming of age ceremony as mostly the hands of children and adolescents.
Kicking up some red dirt!
June 14, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Travelling down the roads less trodden today - Hyden to Southern Cross. Big country, lots of red dirt.
Intersections were a bit of a novelty.
Check out our rooster tail of dust in the last frame.Read more
Search for the Rabbit Proof Fence.
June 14, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Found it! Originally 3635kms stretching from Esperance through to Broome. Only sections of the fence remain - a little less rabbit-proof these days! But still remarkably intact, despite having beenRead more
Greenhead,WA
June 22, 2025 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
How'bout this for an awesome ocean view!?
Found a fabulous camp at Gilligan's Point, celebrated with some GinGin Gin!
Equally stunning in the dawn light - magic being up and about and looking out overRead more
The Pinnacles, Nambung National Park, WA
June 23, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Stunning desert landscape with more than a few phallic rocks!
Stockyard Caves,WA
June 23, 2025 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
Stockyard Gully. Used by drovers as yards and shelter for stock in the 1850's, the largest cave at 300m long is pretty impressive ( imagine the cave full of cattle!). Drive into the nature reserve wasRead more