My first weekend back in Brisbane. Lots of sun, the Westend Markets, the Brisbane Film Festival and a small Street Festival in Highgate Hill. How wonderful. It's good to be back. Especially since I get to spend that time with Amit and Namitha's little family. I'm just so lucky.
Contemprorary art from South East Asian artists evolved around the topic 'if the world changed'. I was simply ecstatic seeing all these wonderful pieces. Lots of video work as well, critical, funny, melancholic and always something to think about.
What I was looking for was a crazy futuristic place, the fusion of modern technology and sustainability. What I found was exactly that but also a likable place, centering around food and consumerism true, but also full of great museums, old colonial buildings and parks of lush tropical green, including the most wonderful botanical garden I've ever experienced.
Looking back at these five and a half month I find myself awed and moved. What an amazing adventure. How much I've learned, how much I've changed, how much I've loved and let go. Challenges all the way, right until the end. So now...now I'm sad and at the same time strangely relieved to go. So long crazy, beautiful, annoying and soothing India. We will meet again.
No Indian meal without spices. Lots of spices come from the Western Ghats, the mountain range running parallel to the western coast of southern India.
One of the highlights in Kerala was definitely visiting one of the spice plantations.
Coffee is being collected after drying in the sun.
Tekkady is a small hill station in the mountains of Kerala. To get there you travel up a winding road passing countless tea and natural rubber plantations.
A home cooking class in Kerala, with lots of tastings and great coconut based dishes.
