June 19th, 2009 | by popagandhi | published in food and music, travel
Enough said. Never again.
Or if you prefer, the YouTube version.
If you’ve enjoyed this, please think about heading over to watch more episodes of the DIY travel show that I do for fun and absolutely no profit. Whenever I update, it’s a video about the Middle East/India. Whenever May does, it’s about London or other European [...]
May 28th, 2009 | by popagandhi | published in dispatch, travel
Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey, was stunning at any time of the day, especially at the witching hour.
May 12th, 2009 | by popagandhi | published in dispatch, travel
I came to the Middle East to do just one thing: see a part of the world that I felt I needed to learn more about. Its language was alien, but familiar - many Malay and Hindi words have roots in Arabic. Its customs and food strange, but not dissimilar - much of the Indian [...]
March 2nd, 2009 | by popagandhi | published in dispatch, general, tech, travel
I can do 40-hour train rides across India. I will share a bed in Marseille with a dreadlocked, horny French boy (long story). I don’t mind riding sampans down a river in Borneo at dawn, with only two hungover boatmen and a torchlight guiding us. I’ll let myself be stuck in middle of bloody nowhere, [...]
January 24th, 2009 | by popagandhi | published in general, travel
Home, sweet home — or homes.
It’s a happy, festive season. I made it to Madras and Pondicherry for Christmas, KL for New Year, London for someone’s birthday, am now on my way to Singapore for Chinese New Year, and will klaap baan tii krung thep for post-Chinese New Year business.
And I’m kind of tired of [...]
