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Tag: India
Here’s what happened when I did 15 yoga classes in 10 days…
I won’t go on about it again (since you’re an avid follower of mine and therefore I’m sure you’re aware) but I’ve not been able to run for over a year. So 14 months into this running hiatus I booked onto another yoga retreat, this time Island Yoga on the stunningly beautiful, undeveloped island of…
Runner turned yogi
It’s been a year. A year injured, a year of no running and a year of throwing my trainers across my flat in a fit of rage (ok, I only did that once, but it was memorable all the same) and a year not blogging about running. So I thought I’d mix it up cos…
What the Indian Police think of the Scottish Police
I stumbled upon the Hampi Police Station today – out of town as it is, it seemed an extremely quiet, relaxed place, relatively far from the tourist centre of the village. I stopped to chat to a policeman and his first question was, inevitably, which country are you from? Well, the excitement when I said…
5 surprising things Indians ask me
In total I’ve spent about three months in India split between three separate trips, I’ve come to learn there’s a few things Indians want to know: “Your country?” An old one but a good one. More than any other country in the world Indians want to know where I’m from. “Scotland” is often met with…
Get out of bed and run!! Sweating it out in Mumbai
Admittedly it was with great laziness I dragged myself out of bed to run Mumbaikars’ most favoured spot this morning (Mumbaikar = someone hailing from Mumbai, I love that word so thought I’d casually drop it in), but force myself I did because it was my third and final day in India’s most cosmopolitan city…
5 Things I Dont Love About Travelling Alone
1. Tables with one chair Travelling alone means you frequently find yourself eating alone. No big deal until you walk into the restaurant and get directed to… the table with one chair. There is nothing I hate more. Oh yeah hold on there is… when you are happily seated at a table with more than one chair when mid-curry an…
Final Stop in India…
The only time I ever feel nervous when travelling is before a night journey – this time I get dropped off at a large, dirty and crowded Calcutta train station for the night train up past Bangladesh towards Nepal. The train rolls into the station at exactly 11pm and I begin the search for my carriage and…
Calcutta Days
So it wasn’t love at first sight – Calcutta that is – my night time arrival and the worst hotel ever put a stop to that, but the coming days in the old capital city of India proved there’s more to this place than first meets the eye. The warm and friendly people, the yummy street food and melting…
Sleeping streets of Calcutta
Calcutta at 11 o’clock on a Tuesday night. Not my usual choice of arrival time, but it was unavoidable. Sleeping bodies lined the streets…5, 10, 15 in a row lying perpindicular to the crumbling buildings while shoeless shirtless destitutes rummage through garbage around abandoned bicycles and rickshaws. My taxi careers through the bumpy streets avoiding the worrying number of vehicles with no…
When things go wrong in the Himalayas
I’d been in Rishikesh a week and was keen to get up north before winter set in and the opportunity gone; I must have missed the winter has already set in memo. The planned 4 day / 3 night trek up in the Indian Himalayas close to the Tibetan border began so well. It took 2 days in a jeep to…
Rishikesh Running
Back to the task in hand. Marathon training. I’ve arrived in the foothills of the Himalayas – surely there’s no better place to run? I’ll literally just step out my door and set off in any which way I like and it will be wonderful. Or not, as the case may be. I’m met with…
Scottish Girl Runs 