30 in 2005

This picture is one of my favourites from the entire trip. A lone person sitting on a beach side wall, caught on camera as we stopped to ad...

Rockley Beach Centre of Bridgetown Random dockside cafe Speeding across the ocean

I have posted 5 sets of photographs and when I checked them online last night they looked fine. This morning it would seem that 2 sets have ...

Watch out for creatures from under the sea..... ...and wrecks..... ....and fish on their way to school

Precise Colourful Neat Endearing

The players The over-enthusiastic Indian fans - at the wrong match! Big screen head Garfield Sobers Pavillion @ Kensington Oval, Bridget...

Sated on mounds of good New York food and music we flew into the sun-lined sky towards our beach holiday. There is something about beach ho...

The view that soothed our cricket-hurt hearts and made us forget about the real world. Nice eh?!

As with all breaks and holidays food was focal point this time as well. Whom am I kidding? It’s the focal point of my very existence. 2&...

When I first went to the US of A in 1998 I was a relative newbie to the business of travelling alone and a definte newbie to the country. A...

This was not meant to be my first New York post. The pictures and bit I wanted to post first are sitting as a draft on the dashboard but whe...

I have several posts to post, all words in a cloud. All neatly written out on wide-margined foolscap paper with a blue-black ink pen, and la...

The suitcase needs unpacking. The sunburn needs calamine lotion. The pictures need uploading. The house needs vaccuming. The plants need wat...

First let me get the disclaimers out of the way. Trips to India are so filled with the loving grasping arms of friends and family, certain s...

There are no words of comfort that will ease away V’s anguish. Like many other die-hard Indian cricket fans he spent Friday night tossing an...

Just my luck, the one day the darn sun shines in London, I’ve made plans to leave town. Blue toy plane took me to Antwerp airport on a rare ...

Doing up your own home needs a load more concentration and effort than living in rented accommodation. For one, the rented flat was fully fu...

It’s the unsaid things that weigh most heavily on ones mind. The weight of expectation is immense. Too large not to notice but not so large ...

So after V had pretty much found out everything there was to find out about Jeetu , we trundled back to the hotel and checked-out (after ste...

Forgive the corny post heading. I could not think of any other. I’m guessing any desi’s reading this are reminded of Zakir Hussain playing t...