We interrupt our regular posts to present a movie made by some friends of ours, featuring Reuben. The whole movie was written, directed and produced by the 3 guys you see in it – check out “The Creep-o of Scary Ville”!
Author: Karen
A birthday in Mussoorie
Mussoorie is one of the hill stations of India – a place where the British used to come to escape the heat of the plains. Nowdays Mussoorie is still a holiday location – and it is still wonderful to come up out of the heat! We went here overnight on our honeymoon – it was…
Rishikesh
Rishikesh was made famous by the Beatles, who stayed there when they visited India. The ashram that they stayed at is no longer active, but it is still a really interesting place to visit. It’s about an hour’s bus ride from Haridwar. When we arrived there were relief workers everywhere – tragically, that week there…
Haridwar
Haridwar is one of the 5 holiest cities in India. It is located close to where the Ganga (Ganges) leaves the Himalayas, and is also the city where Reuben worked for an IT company for several years when he lived in India. Visiting Haridwar for Reuben is like visiting his second home! We spent a…
A quick trip to Pune
We took a bus to Pune, which is normally a three hour express bus ride from Mumbai – except we managed to get on the wrong slow bus. Six frustrating hours later we finally made it for a late lunch with Reuben’s friends Shobit and Preeti. We had a lovely overnight visit with them and…
Monsoon in Mumbai
We arrived in Mumbai fairly shattered, as our journey there had taken a long time…a matatu/matatu/ferry/matatu journey from Diani beach to Mombasa to arrive there before dark, then a four hour wait for our overnight bus, then an overnight bus ride that dropped us at Nairobi airport at 7am for a 3pm checkin, then a…
Staying in a treehouse
We decided that a fun accompaniment to our trip to Masai Mara would be a trip to one of Kenya’s beaches. To get there from Nairobi we took an overnight bus to Mombasa, then a matatu (minivan going along a set route) to a free ferry, then another matatu, then another matatu. It sounds a…
On safari in Masai Mara – part two
On our second day we did a whole day game drive, leaving in the morning, driving across the plains towards the river, picnicing under a tree (where I asked obsessively about snakes) and arriving back at our camp in the late afternoon. One of the highlights was midmorning when we stopped away from all the…
On Safari in Masai Mara – part one
Reuben and I decided that being so close to Kenya, it was a great opportunity to go on safari. I had been once before but was very keen to go again. We flew from Addis Ababa to Nairobi – en route we learned that on Ethiopian Airlines you must have the credit card that you…
Meandering Kiwis 