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Van Life Shake Down Tour
It has been a few weeks now since we started our New Zealand van life experience. In some ways, living onboard Aroha has prepared us well. We are already used…
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Managing Isolation
The last stage of the airport exit process was for hotel allocation to find out where we would spend our managed isolation and the next 14 days. We were told…
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Unlocking Tiny Living
On June 8th, 2020 India moved from Lockdown 4.0 to Unlock 1.0. To save you working it out, that’s a total of 77 days of movement restrictions. 77 days where…
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Life and Laughs in Lockdown
We have now been in lockdown in India for 7 weeks, so seems like a good time to reflect on how we have been coping and what we have been…
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Downtime and Down Dogging in Goa
India is considered to be the land of yoga, so where better to take some time out of our regular travel schedule to invest in mind, body and spirit refreshment on…
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Hyderabad – Buddha & Biryani
Our visit to the capital of the Southeastern Indian state of Telangana was a short trip by recent travel standards. With domestic flights in and out, we stayed for just…
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Back Pocket Skills for a New Travel Lifestyle
There were many responses to our announcement that we were packing in corporate life to sail and travel for the next two or three years. Some were expressions of concern…
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Tamil Nadu – Exploring South India Part 1
Tamil Nadu is the neighbouring state to Kerala and a continuation of our exploration of the south of India. After our relative success with the overnight buses, we decided to use…
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Tamil Nadu – Exploring South India Part 2
Pondicherry – with yet another overnight sleeper bus we arrived in the early hours for our stay in Pondicherry. The former French colonial settlement that still has traces of its…
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Kerala Backwaters – The Venice of the East
Keen to try out the upmarket version of Indian bus travel we opted for a pre-booked air-conditioned bus rather than a local one for our journey to Alleppy, the start…
The next chapter in life
