Author: James Handlon

Overseas Traveller, Would-be Mountaineer, Skier, Hiker & Occasional Idiotic Adventurer.

Mumbai calling! … 29/03/2010

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The Jami Masjid mosques' impressive courtyard.

‘Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.’ – Rudyard Kipling

After arriving in Delhi via Mumbai in the early hours of the morning the first voice we heard had a brummie accent asking ‘have you arrived on the Lufthansa flight mate?’ Confused by the fact that someone who looked like a local taxi driver was in fact an expat from the midlands we continued to stumble along the broken tarmac to a waiting coach. This encounter I would later realise was typical of the paradoxes that India throws at you, nothing is as it first seems. Continue reading “Mumbai calling! … 29/03/2010” →

The first condition…

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This famous quote may well be very apt considering I travel to India in a little over three weeks time. I imagine the smells that I may encounter will be a mixture of the most incredibly intoxicating aromas, and unfortunately at the other end of the spectrum of the most unbelievable foulness.

Of the gladest moments…

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Sir Richard Burton

“Of the gladest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey to unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the Slavery of Home, man feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood….afresh dawns the morn of life…”

Journal Entry (2 December 1856) – Sir Richard Burton

I’m a Blogger!

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Well, I have finally arrived as a Blogger. Eight months ago if you had asked me anything about social networking or Flickr not to mention Twittering you would have received a blank stare of ignorance. However, fast forward said amount of time and here I am making my first blog entry. The aim of this blog will be to keep an online diary of my travels and the adventure sports that I participate in.

Travel is one of my great loves and when it can be combined with some thrill seeking high adventure at the same time I believe it makes for some of the best experiences life has to offer.

In a little over a months time I will be setting off to travel around India for a short period of time, this will be my first experience of the enigmatic sub continent. Now that I have entered the digital age with such gusto I will be endeavouring to put online my first travelogue from this trip.

My hope is that it will serve both as an online diary for myself, to look back on in years to come enabling me to relive my experiences and memories and also as a useful tool and point of reference for others that may themselves at some point be venturing off to some far flung corner of this magical world.