Page 104: Olly on the other hand has achieved the accolade of the new pupil quickest to be threatened with suspension…he seems hell bent on expulsion Olly’s version: If they decided they were going to shove me in a ridiculously strict boarding school, thousands of miles away from my parents, I was going to make […]
Posts Tagged ‘Ooty’
Dec 17
Eight years away from Hebron and not a minute apart from friends
I (Olly) returned from a Hebron School reunion on Tuesday having not visited for eight years and I could never have imagined the week I was going to have. I travelled with my girlfriend Fran who had not experienced India let alone the peculiar school environment and the odd ex Hebronites she was about to […]
Dec 03
Be inspired………. Interview with Geoff and Cherrie Whittle
This interview was taken from Thinking Nomads. Click here to read the article. Introduction When the going got tough, the Whittles got going…to India. Knocked sideways by recession. Geoff and Cherrie Whittle decide on a radical change of direction… and set off for India with their two children…to save the tiger! Geoff and Cherie have […]
Nov 26
36 hour train journeys
Book extract from page 43: ‘When our boys, by then aged eleven and thirteen, end up going to school in southern India they’ll spend the three days travel alone, perfectly happy to involve themselves with card games, conversations and meals with their fellow passengers. Over the next few years they’ll constantly travel from one […]