Follow The Boat

Palaces And Processions

Jamie — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

The second part of our Madurai podcast wanderings, we start off in Garlic Alley where an old lady is duped. We make our way to the incredible Nayak Palace and end the day with a noisy procession.

The Madness Of Madurai

Jamie — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:00:01 +0000

We're in one of the most important towns in south India during one of its most important celebrations, Pongal. Hear how we weave our way through the back streets of Marurai and into the ancient 'Tailor's Market', ending up in an Escher painting.

Into The Ghats

Jamie — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:34:46 +0000

[S02E4] Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu. This podcast is a car journey that starts off badly and turns into a nightmare. It begins with a crash and ends with us getting lost in the middle of the Western Ghat mountain range. Along the way we discover a new breakfast and meet lots of people wearing green and orange.

A Murder of Crows

Liz — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:30:12 +0000

For all their jingoism and arrogance, I felt humbled by their intrepidness. We call ourselves travellers today, but catching a flight over to the other side of the world for a quick jaunt up to Machu Picchu, or a guided tour round a wildlife park, doesn't compare to the terrifying adventure into the unknown these individuals must have endured for the sake of commerce.

Excuses, Excuses

Jamie — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:06:42 +0000

We have been so busy this week that we've not completed editing our next adventure, which takes us into the Western Ghats mountain range. In this podcast we offer a couple of poor excuses but round it off with some great news...

The Backwaters of Allepey

Jamie — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:18 +0000

Lonely Planet has this down as a must-do before you die, and having spent a couple of days on the backwaters of Allepey, we concur. This is a bird-watchers and fish-eaters paradise. We take a gentle motor through the backwaters, viewing sunken rice fields and people-watching the locals as they go about their business on the famous river banks of Kerala.

The Crows Of Fort Cochin

Jamie — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:00:04 +0000

Finally, after a year's absence! Welcome to the brand new followtheboat podcasts! Podcasts, for those who don't know, are free mp3 audio files that you may download and listen to on your stereo, ipod etc. They're the equivalent to a radio show, and we produce weekly radio shows of our adventures. This entire series is dedicated to our travels around the Indian sub-continent. We aim to get under the skin of India, the people and the culture. We've got a ton of adventures that take us from the very north in Sikkim to the very south of Tamil Nadu. In this first episode we take a nice, gentle stroll around Fort Cochin, the area in Kochi where the European adventurers settled after opening up trade routes between Asia and Europe. It's a typically warm day so Liz hides under the shade of the tree-lined avenues, forever surrounded by the cawing of crows.

The Kites of Kolkata

Liz — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:00:20 +0000

As the sun began its rapid descent, the sky began to fill with black kites, some of them tiny specks a mile high. At first we took them to be of the raptor variety, but as we emerged from the undergrowth into wide grassland we saw a hundred boys and men wrestling with long twine stretching into the distance.

Freeing Up Our Pacific Plus Wind Pilot Self Steering

Jamie — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:15:31 +0000

One of the problems with not winterising your self-steering gear properly is that 18 months down the line you pay for it. When we started recommissioning Esper at the beginning of the year we were horrified to discover that our Pacific Plus self-steering gear would not budge. Worse still, I had turned the auxiliary rudder round so that it was pointing inwards and therefore made the brass gears inaccessible. Here is a video to the solution.

Video Clip Of My Girlfriend Stripping

Jamie — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:54:01 +0000

Judging by the positive response from the last video clip we thought we'd post up another one for your titillation. It seems you lot like instant gratification so for those of you who can't be bothered to read our more exciting written and photographic blog entries, here's another clip for you to download and savour. It's a clip of the Lovely Liz stripping! Better watch it quick before she finds out...