Archive for December, 2009

Dec
29/09
Ganpati
Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 December 2009 12:15
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

It can take time to find a good place to stay in a town, but we landed on our feet here at the Ganga View Hotel for Christmas and anywhere is going to be downhill after that. (more…)

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Dec
28/09
Paragliding Video
Last Updated on Monday, 28 December 2009 09:34
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Monday, December 28th, 2009

When I was about to leave The UK, a buddy of mine suggested I take an old VGA res headcam with me for filming some of the paragliding course, but to be honest I thought I’d be too busy doing stuff like learning to fly to make any kind of video. It wasn’t until a few days into the course that I started pressing the play button with an idea in mind of making a video at the end of the course.

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Dec
24/09
Varanasi
Last Updated on Friday, 25 December 2009 12:48
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009

I read today that Varanasi is the world’s oldest inhabited city with an unbroken lineage back to 800BC, and there is evidence of early Aryan settlements as far back as 4000 years ago. I can certainly believe it, the small alleys and dirt roads that snake around the back of the ghats look timeless, every nook and cranny seems to have grown as slowly as a snails shell, encrusted with time. (more…)

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Dec
23/09
Mahindra College, Pune to Varanasi.
Last Updated on Friday, 25 December 2009 12:47
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

I woke to a sunrise that calmed the clamorous valley of the previous night. I walked up the arcing stairs of the YHA to the roof and was met with a far warmer world. The laborers on the neighboring building site were huddled around warming morning fires, Pune had become solid after the little pinpricks of light had joined together. (more…)

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