Just a quick update today as I’ve been training on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( Red Hat ). I’m sure you don’t want to know the real techy stuff, so I’ll just keep it light . . .  Continue reading →

Unsurprisingly, given the lack of sleep whilst travelling, I went to bed early and slept well. However I did wake quite early, a not unusual occurrence for the first night after a long flight. After updating the blog I went down to breakfast which was buffet style and had both Indian and Continental dishes. I had a mixture of both and then caught up on more sleep for a couple of hours before heading off to find an Umbrella (useful for both rain and sun!). I couldn’t find one locally so took a tuk tuk down to Fort Kochi. Continue reading →

I’ve arrived in Kochi, which is in the Kerala region of India (click here for map). The flight from the UK to Mumbai was a bit shorter than expected, but still long enough to give me a numb bum! The seats on the plane had the hardest cushions I’ve ever encountered on a plane seat! The flight from Mumbai to Kochi was delayed due to a connecting flight from Riadh being delayed. On the plus side I enjoyed the food on both flights. Veg curry makes a welcome change to the usual bland airline food!

On arrival in Kochi I was met by Kichu, the guy I had been dealing with at the training company. Continue reading →

In less than three days I’ll be boarding a plane for India. I’ll be there for a little over a month. The first two weeks will be work related as I’m doing a software certification course. After that I’ll have two weeks to do as I wish.

I’d like to hire a motorcycle (Royal Enfield I guess in India!), but it’s monsoon season out there at the moment, so I don’t know whether a motorcycle ride is practical or not, never having experienced a monsoon before, so I’ll play it by ear and decide once I’m there. I’m taking the gear just in case though! If I do hire the bike I’d like to go and find the village where my son, Adam, did his volunteer work.

Who knows what the next month will bring?