Next day I was in Hariyana, a bustling state between Delhi and Punjab. This time very brown and dry as the rains had not yet started but a...

Jantar Mantar After getting our car and driver hired we set the route and out first point of call was Jantar Mantar. It is a compound wit...

As you may have read we have been traveling for most of April and are now relocated from Thailand to India.   Gateway of India

Goddess Durga

1st April we arrived Langkawi and made fast to RLYC. By then I had already got sailing orders for Goa. I was picking up some stuff for the y...

As Sri Lanka is 80% Buddhist as were our driver he took me to visit a temple, Sri Jinaratana Bhikku Abhyasa Vidyalaya. The temple had surp...

We went in the morning to Colombo fish market which was actually quite close to the main port. As soon as I stepped out of the car I could...

15th April early morning we approached Colombo and the day dawned to a yellow cloud of pollution over the capital of Sri Lanka. Reminded m...

So, once again we were back in Phuket and we had stuff to do as usual. Carpenters were called and works started on our foremast to embed the...

As we were again in Langkawi we were asked to join the hash once again to which we replied positively. Friday went working in expecting the ...

On our trip to Langkawi I decided to go via Pulau Perak and check out the waters there. Pulau Perak itself is a small button like Island i...

As some friends were going to do a photo shoot in Kantang I was asked to tag along to see the local spot. Little did I know that I was going...

While in Trang I was given opportunity to come and watch a talent contest at Huai Yod school. These kind of events are very common in Thaila...

2 weeks later the red shirts were wreaking havoc in Bangkok and I prepared to go north to pick up my newly arrived passport. This time I...

Having been driving to Trang a few times I have been seeing signs of the "fossil beach" when I've been passing through Krabi, ...

As my passport was running out of pages despite only 4 years in use I needed to get a new one before the bureaucrats started bitching about ...

February went fast as usual, Kalizma was looking to be under siege with all the maintenance works going on but she looks better now with t...

Next day (28th Feb) came sunny and calm, we heaved up anchor early morning and started towards Phuket again. At abt 10am we were passing Ko ...

Our time was up once again and Saini's visa expired so we had to leave Malaysia for Phuket. We left late on the 27th in the afternoon as...

19th Feb Hashing with Langkawi Beach Hash House Harriers Having arrived to Langkawi it naturally reached the hashing community and we were...

So, our time was again up in the Kingdom of Smiles and we were leaving for Langkawi once more. This time it could be for a longer time as th...

On the 7th Jira took me to see Ekachai Srivichai, a local talent from southern Thailand. He has been a staple "luk thung" artist f...

This guy met his maker Dec 2008 in the Port Blair Market

After settling down after the cruise we started on our pending works: awnings, teak dk, interior, engine, MCA, stability, interior carpentry...