The Joy of a Microcamper
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In April 2025, the BBC announced that the new season of Race Around the World would start at the Great Wall of China and end at Kanyakumari, in India. Kanyakumari is not a name which instantly springs to mind when someone mentions India. Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi. Yes, all these plus perhaps Pune, Shimla, Agra are…
We needed Varkala to fix us. Travelling for around six weeks, we were a bit sick. We had suffered from back-to-back colds. We had both been ill in Kochi and were now also sick of moving about. Having reached the end of the world at Kanyakumari we were heading back north. Ultimately back to Delhi…
We were in Chang Mai. We had sought assistance from the hotel travel desk to obtain onwardbus tickets. As I stood speaking with the travel agent my eye was drawn to the rainbow displayof folded leaflets advertising local activities.My focus rested on a pamphlet for the Maerim Elephant Sanctuary. Plucking the leaflet off thedisplay I…
We arrived in Hue. Tired from the overnight train. The train was fine, mostly empty. We chose to take sleeper seats rather than a sleeping berth. This was because berths in Vietnam were in groups of six. Our last long sleeper in India with Four Berths taught us that if you share your berths with…
The draw of the beach at An Bang was so strong. Before we knew it we had stayed eight days instead of the originally planned five. It was a great place to celebrate the New Year and wait for things to return to ‘normal’. We didn’t want to leave the beach, but we had to…