Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. — Cesare Pavese

Posts Tagged ‘fight’

travel diary – day 370

day 366 – i had an early start, checked out and headed to the airport. the idiot security officer poked holes in my shoes (checking for bombs or drugs or some shit) which pissed me off. in total i had to take off my shoes three times and the security people were arseholes. in the [...]

travel diary – day 285

day 281 – today i spent the entire day on the bus. it was a long, boring trip. i managed to get some sleep a few times and i wore ear plugs for most of the trip (to drown out the indo-pop that they insisted on playing at full volume). i talked to the bus [...]

travel diary – day 270

day 266 – the previous day i’d seen some signs advertising the ‘medewi surf comp’ which was a local event organised by a few expats. the whole idea was to promote surfing and improve the medewi community. after breakfast, i found the organisers and offered to photograph the day for them. they jumped at the [...]

travel diary – day 60

day 59 – today was going to be a busy day and i got started early. i walked down to the australian embassy first, to ask about passport renewal. they told me that it’s a 10 day process and $220. i obviously don’t have that kind of time, so i went back to british council. [...]

travel diary day 13

day 10 – i didn’t wake up early as i had promised myself. i missed the dawn boat ride along the ghats. instead i walked along the ghats for nearly a kilometer. the main ghats are manikarnika (burning) ghat, meer ghat, dasaswamedh ghat (the most popular) and munshi ghat. i didn’t get all the way [...]

given an out?

um … something strange happened the other day, and i think it may have been a moment of clarity in my relationship. we were talking about having children … our desire to have them, but our misfortune that we’ve not yet been able to … and sujoung, over dinner and a few drinks, said that [...]