http://growingabeard.verture.net This is my travel diary while working in Hyderabad, India. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:15:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've started a new blog where I write about music, film, travel, politics and everything else. You can find it on Secret Swede - Swedish Music, Film, Travel and More. I'm pretty happy with the design. I'm using the Mandigo theme which I first saw on one of my favorite music ... http://growingabeard.verture.net/2008/03/new-blog-swedish-music-film-and-more/ This post is about my dear friend Jan who runs the site eXtreme-backgammon.net. It’s basically pictures of people playing backgammon under extreme circumstances. Be it on a deserted island, at the top of Mont Blanc in Italy or simply with a holy cow. So how does this relate to India ... http://growingabeard.verture.net/2007/02/backgammon-to-the-extreme/ We arrived in Alappuzha (Allepy) from Munnar by car around 5 in the afternoon. The town is the largest entry gate to the famous Keralan backwaters and most tourists usually come here to jump on a houseboat or any other of the many boat trips available. I heard somewhere that ... http://growingabeard.verture.net/2007/02/on-a-houseboat-on-the-keralan-backwaters/ We left Fort Cochin early in the morning by car, heading towards Munnar to spend one night in the tea country. The trip to Munnar was pretty pleasant with lovely scenery consisting of rice fields, banana and coffee plantations and of course palm trees everywhere. We spotted also many natural ... http://growingabeard.verture.net/2007/02/travelling-to-munnar-the-tea-country/ Arriving in Kerala, it was very easy to see the differences between the other places I’ve been to in India. From the plane window we could see all the green everywhere and lots of water. The weather was much hotter than Hyderabad and much more humid. Another nice surprise was ... http://growingabeard.verture.net/2006/12/travelling-to-fort-cochin-kerala/ I'm writing this on the plane to Dublin from Frankfurt, there was just an announcement about the weather at my final destination, heavy rain and thunder storms…I think I’m gonna jump off the plane before it’s too late. Haven’t been able to post anything for a couple of weeks, been ... http://growingabeard.verture.net/2006/12/farewell-india-i%e2%80%99ll-be-missing-you/ Tonite on my way from work I was speaking with Ismail, who is THE man and knows literally everything from the flight nbr for the incoming Indian Air flight from Mumbai to the personal phone nbr of the city commissioner etc. Conveniently I brought up the subject of my visa ... http://growingabeard.verture.net/2006/11/48-hours-in-mumbai/ Namaste!First of all, thanks to everyone who visits the blog, I’ve seen an steady increase in traffic and it’s nice to know that friends are thinking about you, specially when so far away from everyone. I’m flying to Mumbai tomorrow evening for a weekend trip. I was going alone to begin ... http://growingabeard.verture.net/2006/11/weekend-in-mumbai-and-persian-music-video/ We woke up just before six the next morning to watch the sunrise. The amazing view of the sun rising over the village below us together with wild parrots flying around us was truly an unforgettable experience. On our way to Jaipur we saw all kind of wild animals such as ... http://growingabeard.verture.net/2006/11/golden-triangle-rajasthan-india-%e2%80%93-part-2/ - Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it; it belongs to those who need it. The other night I watched the movie Il Postino which is about a simple Italian man meeting the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Set in an Italian village and with a great soundtrack, it ... http://growingabeard.verture.net/2006/10/il-postino-%e2%80%93-dreams-do-come-true/