NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 12 May 2013 | Views [702]
Last week we visited the set of Hobbiton, which all "Lord of the Rings" fans will know is the home of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. The set was almost completely dismantled after LOTR was filmed, but was reconstructed for the filming of "The Hobbit" and ... Read more >
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NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 12 May 2013 | Photo Gallery
Hobbiton, the set where scenes from "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" were filmed
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INDIA | Thursday, 25 Apr 2013 | Views [1065]
In 2010 and 2012 I spent three months (that's the longest visa I could get) teaching English as a volunteer at Tibet Charity in Dharamshala, India. My students were mostly Tibetans. Dharamshala is a community dominated by Tibetans in exile, ... Read more >
Tags: dalai lama, dharamsala, dharamshala, library, monkeys, monks, teaching, tibet, yeti
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 15 Jan 2013 | Photo Gallery
A walk on beautiful Mt Taranaki, January 2013
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NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 15 Jan 2013 | Photo Gallery
Bird sanctuary, Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, New zealand
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NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 15 Jan 2013 | Views [1449]
This summer we spent a great family day at Tiritiri Matangi Island in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland. We drove to North Harbour, about an hour north of Auckland, and caught the ferry (360 Discovery Cruises) from there. It took about 35 minutes to reach the ... Read more >
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INDIA | Monday, 21 May 2012 | Photo Gallery
Pragpur is India's only heritage village, and lies just outside judge's Court, a lovely old family home which is now a hotel.
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INDIA | Wednesday, 16 May 2012 | Views [2407]
Recently Gusti, Eva and I went to Kangra Fort, the Brigeschwari Devi temple in Kangra, Masroor temple and the Tatwani hot spring, as well as having a memorable lunch at Lanj / Lunj. We set off at 8am with Hardeep the taxi driver who had been ... Read more >
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INDIA | Tuesday, 15 May 2012 | Photo Gallery
Masroor, Kangra Fort, Tatwani hot spring, lunch at Lunj
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INDIA | Saturday, 12 May 2012 | Views [2447]
I’m sitting here feeling very full and satisfied after dinner in one of McLeod Ganj’s newest restaurants – and one of the most unusual. About five minutes’ walk down the road from Snow Height is Jogiwara Village, a small collection of houses, an ... Read more >
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INDIA | Thursday, 3 May 2012 | Photo Gallery
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INDIA | Thursday, 3 May 2012 | Views [1792]
Last Saturday Jocelyn, Gusti and I set off in a taxi from McLo at 7am to drive to Amritsar. We had two aims in mind for the weekend trip – to see the evening border-closing ceremony at Wagah on the India/Pakistan border, and to visit the famous Golden ... Read more >
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INDIA | Thursday, 5 Apr 2012 | Views [2163] | Comments [2]
This semester at Tibet Charity we have teachers from New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Austria, Australia and the USA. The Austrian teacher Gusti and I ate at Namgyal café the other night. They have the most fantastic pizzas. That’s the great thing ... Read more >
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INDIA | Saturday, 31 Mar 2012 | Views [2572]
This story appears in a slightly different form in my new book "The Yeti in the Library" which is on sale in paperback - contact me by email for details - and on Kindle and verious other e-book sites. www.goodreads.com/author/show/6433635.Gill_Winter ... Read more >
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INDIA | Monday, 26 Mar 2012 | Views [1194]
Sunday in Dharamsala - featuring a sit-in, a snow monkey and a Prime Minister
Last Sunday Jocelyn, Eva and I decided to go to St John’s stone church, which was built by the British in the nineteenth century when McLo was a ... Read more >
Tags: dharamsala, mcleod ganj, petition, snow monkey, united nations tibet
INDIA | Saturday, 17 Mar 2012 | Photo Gallery
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INDIA | Saturday, 17 Mar 2012 | Views [967]
A couple of days ago we had our first monkey visitors. I woke up to hear chattering noises outside and went out onto the balcony to find a family of monkeys coming down the hill. The babies were bouncing around like mad on the roof above my room, peering ... Read more >
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INDIA | Wednesday, 14 Mar 2012 | Views [929]
I'm sitting in Cafe 1 2 in McLo drinking lemon ginger honey and feeling very happy to be back. The old place is pretty much the same as last time except quite a lot colder - the mountains are covered in snow (beautiful) and there is a real chill in the ... Read more >
Tags: dharamsala, english teaching, mcleod ganj, mclo
INDIA | Saturday, 4 Feb 2012 | Views [1211]
In Delhi I went on a really interesting walk with ex-street kids, organised by the Salaam Baalak Trust. The Trust rescues kids who have run away from home or got lost in crowds and find themselves living on the streets in Delhi and other cities. They ... Read more >
Tags: city walk, delhi, new delhi railway station, salaam baalak, street kids
JORDAN | Thursday, 2 Feb 2012 | Photo Gallery
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