The wide-eyed wanderer – Page 2 – Places I've been, things I've seen and people I've met along the way.

November 11 / India

Watching the waistline

A friend once said that there’s no diet as efficient as spending a few months…

November 6 / India

I won’t claim to feel spiritually cleansed, and there was certainly nothing ritual about my…

October 31 / India

Having reached Khajuraho at 5.30 in the morning, there was still a bit of a…

October 30 / India

It’s a game played over large parts of Asia and made famous in The kite…

October 28 / India

So, I have been the victim of my first scam on this trip . And…

October 25 / India

It seems that escaping to the tropics was not enough to avoid an autumn cold…

October 25 / India

The post title pretty much sums up the lowlights and the highlight of our three-day…

October 19 / Singapore

Ever since my first encounters with long-distance Indian rail travel, I’ve gone on and on about how great Indian trains are.

October 18 / Hong Kong

This is really a follow-up on a post I never wrote this summer (but there…

May 18 / Thailand

That’s “The floating market” to you and me . This morning was spent at one…