Back in March 2017 on my first travels through India I spent the incredible festival of Holi in Pushkar which is one of the biggest traveller hubs for this hectic colourful festival. I've had quite a few questions about my experience and always seem to have a load of...
On my first trip to India in 2017 my fourth stop was a visit to the lovely beachy area of Gokarna in north Karnataka. I happened to be there in mid-February and some pals I met told me I had to stay for the Shivaratri festival, as a temple town predominantly...
And so Festival Season 2018 commences.... as my two Indian festivals of 2017 (GOAT in January and Magnetic Fields in December) neatly bracketed the year does this mean there is no such thing as an actual festival season anymore!? I wasn't planning on heading to...
Magnetic Fields reverberated its way on to my radar back when I was in India last year as a load of people I met through working on GOAT festival had been and come back to Goa raving about it... A weekend music festival set not just in a palace, but in a palace...
Whilst I lived in Arambol last time, the Saturday Night Market in Arpora, Goa was one of the main weekly social events I went to. The first time I went I couldn't believe the scale of it and how well it was organised... I was expecting some kind of flea market but...
A state wide booze ban for election week, no wifi, a broken foot, licensing issues, resizing of venue two weeks before the festival, drastic downsizing, cutting artists, haggling, delhi belly, another change of venue 1 week before the festival, a case of typhoid,...
I planned to come to Goa straight after Mumbai to acclimatise bit and chiiiiill out on a beach for a while. After the most horrendous 13 hour bus from Mumbai (...seriously that's another story), getting off at the wrong stop and then having the most wonderful and...
Namaste from India! Now that I've graduated I'm backpacking across India on my own over the winter until either my visa or my money runs out... I'll be back in time for festival season though! Expect lots of posts about my adventures in the East starting in the city...