There & Back Again

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The Gateway to India

13. January 2012

I felt a twinge of sadness as I told the taxi driver that I was going home. It feels far longer than six weeks that I’ve been here, and although I can’t wait to step off the plane in miserable, freezing Manchester to rejoin my girlfriend, friends and family, I really am going to miss this [...]

Christmas in a Foreign Land

28. December 2011

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the biggest fan of Christmas; I loathe the commercialisation and exploitation purely because it’s so tacky. I do, however, hold Christmas day itself very dearly. My annual routine consists of nursing my hangover with a large black coffee, hair of the dog and some sort of grilled [...]