A short update in which I share my upcoming plans to travel around India.

I’m excited to say that in two weeks I’ll be flying out to New Delhi to spend the next few months travelling around India. I’ve spent very little time in Asia, my last visit being over three years ago on a research trip to Japan, and I’m thrilled to be heading back for a longer period of time to explore a different side of such a culturally diverse continent.

As the day of the flight approaches, the excitement grows along with the nerves. Thankfully, I’ll be joined by a friend on my journey through one of the most densely populated (and notoriously intense) countries in the world. We’ll be flying out to India’s capital on the 8th August and returning at the start of Diwali on the 19th October. I intend to put my freelance work on hold for the duration of the trip, but I’ll be continuing to write by journaling my experiences along the way and typing up some travel blog posts on my return to Britain.

A brief introductory post to my blog, in which I consider the content I'll be sharing and my reasons for blogging.

The first thing you should know about freelancing is that you spend a lot of time aboard trains. Here I am now, Coach C of the Cross Country service home with my laptop tilted forward and a just-finished book acting (poorly) as a mouse mat. As we’ve three stops left to go, now seems like the perfect time to introduce you to my blog.

This will be my first time blogging. I’m not entirely sure what to expect from the experience, but I do hope you find my posts readable if nothing else. Every writer knows how difficult it can be to call a draft ‘finished’, and I’m hoping that blogging will help me let go of that perfectionism a little. It occurs to me that typing out words for unseen readers (that’s you in this scenario) is a good practice for writers – just as reserving an aisle seat is a good practice for humans over six feet tall.