2015 has been an intensely challenging and at times, ridiculously stressful year for me. It has also been like a teacher offering difficult lessons from which to grow and learn. Interestingly enough, the year and its lessons have been mostly in India and I’m sure to my core that there is no coincidence in this. […]
I’ve been in the south of India for just over a week now and this land is in stark contrast to my husband’s home-town of Jaipur, further north in the arid yet vibrant state of Rajasthan. The vast difference really struck me on my previous trip here, nine months ago. Alex, myself and his goldsmith […]
My flight from Dublin came via Abu Dhabi, a frenzied hub of mainly transiting passengers. I had an hour and a half between flights, plenty time. Well that’s what I had thought before I saw the rows of bodies waiting to go through security. The queue was about six lines long, zig-zagging back and forth as I shuffled my way along towards […]
Given that I’m only a week back from India, I’ve quite recently experienced the joys of long flights and a disturbed body-clock and the general wear and tear of this exhausting activity that I love so much. Here’s a few of the more interesting elements of my journey home: the things travelling did to me… Required me to rise […]
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