by liz scully | Aug 22, 2014 | 1 minute holiday, India, Video
Now, I know I’ve shared a lot of Hampi videos recently – but this is something special. Totally otherworldly. I was spellbound when this happened. Here’s a Brahmin priest doing some odd (and fairly prosaic) housekeeping: looking for coins in the...
by liz scully | Aug 15, 2014 | 1 minute holiday, India, Video
So we’ve been on a bit of a Hampi kick recently – and as it is my favourite place on earth… I’m going to give you a bit more of the joy of the place. This week we’re at the Queen’s bath. A swimming pool solely for the Queen (as you...
by liz scully | Aug 8, 2014 | 1 minute holiday, India, Video
Remember we took a ride in a rickshaw together back in Bangalore? Well this week, we’re bouncing along through the Unesco world heritage site that is Hampi. We’re in Hampi Bazaar, and you can see the crowded streets, cows and glimpse of the gopurum of the...
by liz scully | Aug 3, 2014 | Guest post, India, Signs
Please meet curator of this months Signage Sunday, Aurelia Zoss. This is the fourth of four posts from Aurelia. Indians are ‘ear’ minded: it’s the information that counts, and not so much the spelling. Fair enough. As an expat who’s been around for long...
by liz scully | Aug 1, 2014 | 1 minute holiday, India, Video
If you’re a regular reader (and why would you not be?) then you might remember that I had a trip to Pune to visit a rather fancy Four Seasons Vineyard near there just before I left India. Very nice it was too. There was ace food, lovely people and we got a tour...
by liz scully | Jul 31, 2014 | Cultural Differences, India
A few months before I left India, a very strange, but deeply Indian thing happened. The doorbell rang and when I opened the door, there stood two small ladies with a clipboard and one of our (fairly useless) building security guards. They told me they were from one of...