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May 2025 Warning: no photos here, just words ... I commenced drafting these thoughts just over a week ago at the end of my month-long...
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May 2512 min read
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Marvellous, Magical Mysore
Mysuru, Monday, 13th May  We spent today exploring Mysuru, the local name I have preferred to use in my writings. That name can be seen...
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May 136 min read
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Intense
Mysuru (previously Mysore), Sunday 11th May.  Travelling in India is an intense experience. I can understand how some folk who’ve never...
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May 121 min read
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Questions and Observations
Friday 9th May - Ooty (full name Udhagamandalam), South India  I will start with a bit of social commentary, well, social observation...
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May 104 min read
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Enigmatic India
Wednesday 7th May, Bengaluru, South India We’ve actually left Bengaluru after 4/2 days (4 days me/2 days J) of very gentle exploration of...
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May 83 min read
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Highways, Byways and Lazy Days
Bengaluru, South India, Monday 5th May 2025 I start today's post with much happiness that I will see J this afternoon for the first time...
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May 54 min read
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A Composite Tale
In times gone by I have attempted to write a daily blog - at the very least to do a catch up every other day. This journey has been very...
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May 510 min read
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Exploring
Monday 21st April, Darjeeling, West Bengal Today was an explore day around Darjeeling. Structured in the morning, and free in the...
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Apr 212 min read
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Expectations ... exceeded.
Sunday 20th April, Darjeeling, West Bengal, 2045 MASL It's taken me around 48 hours to get here. I took a somewhat circuitous route -...
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Apr 202 min read
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Oooooh, only 2 weeks ...
In under 2 weeks I hop a bus to Perth, and then via a slightly convoluted route, a plane to Delhi, arriving into the Indira Gandhi...
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Apr 53 min read
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In the footsteps of James
Some of you will know my fascination with my great grandfather, the Hon James Campbell MLA. At the time of his death in 1893 at age just...
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Feb 35 min read
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Penultimate Ultimate II
Day 17 Revisited [Friday, 11 October 2024 - Cabrerets to Vers. ~10 klms, total ~334.3 klms., plus ~20klms by bus]. Update 19 October....
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Oct 19, 20246 min read
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Yin-Yang
Day 20 - Monday, 14 October 2024 - Cahors to Paris As I commence writing this post I am aware of, and need to be explicit that, the...
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Oct 17, 20247 min read
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Wanderin'
Day 19 - Sunday, 13 October 2024 - Cahors. ~8 klms Cahors exploration. Cahors is a city with an ancient history, pre-dating the Roman...
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Oct 14, 20242 min read
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The End??
Day 18 - Saturday, 12 October 2024 - Vers to Cahors. ~16klms, total ~350.3.klms I have to say that, especially compared to the previous...
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Oct 13, 20243 min read
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Penultimate Ultimate
Day 17 - Friday, 11 October 2024 - Cabrerets to Vers. ~10 klms, total ~334.3 klms., plus ~20klms by bus. There is way too much to tell...
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Oct 12, 20241 min read
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Enchanted
Day 16 - Thursday, 10 October 2024 - Marcilhac-sur-Célé to Cabrerets. ~18.3 klms, total ~324.3 klms I could have called today’s post...
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Oct 11, 20241 min read
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Spectacular
Day 15 - Wednesday, 9 October 2024 - Espagnac-Sainte-Eulalie to Marcilhac-sur-Célé. Easy day, ~18 klms, total ~306 klms Mind you, those...
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Oct 11, 20242 min read
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One
Day 14 - Tuesday, 8 October 2024 - Figeac to Espagnac-Sainte-Eulalie. ~23.6 klms; total ~288 klms. We have been walking the GR65 for...
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Oct 9, 20241 min read
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And on the 13th day ...
... they rested Day 12 - Sunday, 6 October 2024 - Livinhac-le-Haut to Figeac. ~25 klms, total ~264.4, but really who knows? Day 13 -...
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Oct 8, 20243 min read
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