Tumkur, India

How could I come to India without visiting the small town of Tumkur, 50miles north west of Bangalore, to see the Stean Memorial Church dedicated to my grandfather's brother, Cecil Stean and his wife Mabel, who went to India as Christian missionaries after ...

... to the horizon! A especially steep part of the mountain is called 'Tipu's drop'. Tipu was a ruler in this part of India a couple of hundred years ago and what are mighty people like him doing on places like this? They built a big fortress, right! Well, ...

... nbsp;was somehow less irksome that it would've been at home, because it felt like a rite of passage. Like, "Yep, I'm definitely in India now". I just kinda squished through it and wiped my flip flops on the pavement in a vain attempt to rid them of that bi ...

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