Posts Tagged ‘India’

India…in hindsight

Reading No Worry Chicken Curry was not necessarily a book that I expected to enjoy. I appreciate how stupid that might sound considering it documents the trials and tribulations of my family’s adventure in India.  However, I expected it’d just be a repetition of events I knew very well and descriptions of locations I could […]

Rebel without a cause

Page 104: Olly on the other hand has achieved the accolade of the new pupil quickest to be threatened with suspension…he seems hell bent on expulsion Olly’s version: If they decided they were going to shove me in a ridiculously strict boarding school, thousands of miles away from my parents, I was going to make […]

Rickshaw Run

Here is the article I’m (Olly) getting published in the local papers to generate awareness and raise money for our trip: Crossing India in an auto rickshaw for charity. India is already an enthralling country to travel across but when a group of friends from Bournemouth decided to sign up to the ‘Rickshaw Run’, a 3000km journey […]

Eight years away from Hebron and not a minute apart from friends

I (Olly) returned from a Hebron School reunion on Tuesday having not visited for eight years and I could never have imagined the week I was going to have. I travelled with my girlfriend Fran who had not experienced India let alone the peculiar school environment and the odd ex Hebronites she was about to […]

Be inspired………. Interview with Geoff and Cherrie Whittle

This interview was taken from Thinking Nomads. Click here to read the article. Introduction When the going got tough, the Whittles got going…to India. Knocked sideways by recession. Geoff and Cherrie Whittle decide on a radical change of direction… and set off for India with their two children…to save the tiger! Geoff and Cherie have […]

36 hour train journeys

  Book extract from page 43: ‘When our boys, by then aged eleven and thirteen, end up going to school in southern India they’ll spend the three days travel alone, perfectly happy to involve themselves with card games, conversations and meals with their fellow passengers. Over the next few years they’ll constantly travel from one […]

The promise of elephants!

Book extract from page 26: We’ve allowed our imaginations to take us to a place where we want to be in the future; to a place that has a fully functioning lodge, earning significant income to reinvest into local tiger conservation initiatives, where guests will sip G&T on the veranda after a jungle trek on […]