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Travel Day 931 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA When I was walking around to find the British colonial architecture yesterday, I couldn’t help but finding something else as in Bangalore: extremely modern architecture… When I crossed Cubbon Park towards the east side to walk along MG road, I first reached an area that seemed to want […]
Travel Day 930 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA After seeing some of the historical sites in Bangalore yesterday, today I focused more on seeing buildings form the British colonial area… The British had initially arrived in Bangalore in 1809 and by 1831 they made the city their administrative base for the region. Obviously along with the […]
Travel Day 929 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA My 12 hour overnight train ride had been pretty uneventful and after some decent sleep I arrived in Bangalore in the morning… Luckily this time around the train had arrived to a decent hour as well and Bangalore had been the last stop, so everything was pretty smooth […]
Travel Day 928 – Fort Cochin, Kochi, Kerala, INDIA After realizing how captivating Fort Cochin had become for me over the last two weeks, today it was finally time to say good-bye to this place with its nice colonial architecture… It was funny, but I was almost feeling a bit sentimental about leaving Fort Cochin. […]
Travel Day 927 – Fort Cochin, Kochi, Kerala, INDIA After being in tranquil Fort Cochin for about two weeks already, today was finally the day to take action and to figure out the onwards travels… Well, to be honest I probably would have stayed in Fort Cochin for a lot longer since I really liked […]
Travel Day 926 – Fort Cochin, Kochi, Kerala, INDIA One thing I really enjoyed over the last couple of days was watching the fishermen operate the huge Chinese Fishing Nets… Initially I thought these spider-like structures were only used for tourist’s sake because people constantly tried to lure me onto their little fishing platforms. While […]
Travel Day 925 – Fort Cochin, Kochi, Kerala, INDIA While I wasn’t that successful in finding the fort in Fort Cochin yesterday, what I did find in the two museums I went to was a hint that there were at least a lot of Portuguese churches around… I had already visited the Portuguese built St. […]
Travel Day 924 – Fort Cochin, Kochi, Kerala, INDIA After staying in Fort Cochin for quite a while, one question still kept bugging me when I walked around: Where the heck was the fort in Fort Cochin? I had been walking all over the place already during my time in Kochi, but I never came […]
Travel Day 923 – Fort Cochin and Mattancherry, Kerala, INDIA While I tried to see the rest of the Biennale today, in the end I saw more historic spice warehouses in Mattancherry than anything else… The remaining Biennale sites on my map were pretty spread out and mostly in the Mattancherry warehouse area, but as […]
Travel Day 922 – Fort Cochin, Kochi, Kerala, INDIA After taking it easy for the past three days, it was about time to be a little more active again and visiting the Biennale seemed to be a great thing to do… But first I had decided to start my day with an early morning Raga […]
Travel Day 919-921 – Fort Cochin, Kochi, Kerala, INDIA While I reminisced about the shared times yesterday, I was also facing reality and re-assessing my own situation… First off I was not able to support the really nice hotel room any more that we had together with the high ceilings and balcony overlooking the main […]
Travel Day 918 – Fort Cochin, Kochi, Kerala, INDIA After spending One Month with a Guru in India, now I had spent One Month with a Wife in India and while I was trying to re-assess my own situation, I ended up rather reflecting on the time we had spent together… It was funny, but during […]
Travel Day 917 – Kochi, Kerala, INDIA It was unfortunately already the last day in India for my travel-wife of the past one month and we had still a few things on the agenda… After seeing Fort Cochin and the Backwaters, today we definitely had to see a bit of Mattancherry and Jew Town. Also […]