It doesn’t seem to be a year since I started writing this blog let alone nearly 10 years since my first trip to India but it is, never has Mark Twain s immortal words been so poignant

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain

In the ten years since I added this I have lost both parents several neighbours and far too many former colleagues and friends and i have grown older wiser and slightly wider.