Whilst we are having the time of our lives, there is of course a serious side to this adventure. We need to raise as much as we can to add to the pot that […]
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The Deccan Odyssey 2023
Team Sakala – Deccan Odyssey 2023 – 05 – Our challenge and Reiki!
Welcome to the fifth podcast in our series highlighting the upcoming Team Sakala, Deccan Odyssey 2023 where we will be tearing round Western India in our teams of tuktuks. This episode features Nick Ashby, a […]
Team Sakala – Deccan Odyssey 2023 – 04 – Why do we do Mad Challenges?
This episode on Team Sakala’s Deccan Odyssey 2023 podcast, we have a lovely guest, Nicky Chisholm. Nicky is a friend that I have known quite a long time now and she does love a challenge! […]
Team Sakala – Deccan Odyssey 2023 – 03 – Get To Know Safe in Sussex
We went to meet Louise Gisbey, Deputy CEO of Safe in Sussex and, here, is episode 3 of our Team Sakala Podcast! In our previous chats and blog posts you will hear us mention Safe […]
Team Sakala – Deccan Odyssey 2023 – 02 – Anna’s Big Book of Adventure
The second in Team Sakala’s series of podcasts depicting our upcoming expedition into Western India in Tuk-Tuks – the Deccan Odyssey 2023! Here, Anna Tidey talks about her hopes and reasons for being part of […]
Team Sakala – Deccan Odyssey 2023 – 01 – Introduction
In June 2023, Team Sakala are leading a grand expedition into Western India in Tuk-Tuks (auto-rickshaws) on a path from Panjim in Goa all the way from the coast, up into the Western Ghats, through […]
Doing it for the girls! – Mum and Daughter
To complement our ‘mum and son’ team, we now have a ‘mum and daughter’ team – Team Tatum – Deb T and her daughter Emma, who is part of the Sakala family as she works […]
And then there is ME!
When we launched this challenge, I asked for a short biography from any other of my fellow team members as I felt I could not write about me – I choose do this crazy stuff […]
Vindaloo or not!
Despite the urban myth that you should tackle the hottest curry – a vindaloo – and accompany it with pints of lager in your local curry house, in India that is not what the dish […]
The power of the sun.
After we have all been sizzling in boiling temperatures this week, it got me thinking back to a visit I made to an amazing place called The Barefoot College at Tilona in Rajasthan. My friend […]
The second ‘Deccan Chuggabug’ team member.
Like you, I am meeting Yasmin for the first via her biography… and she is a girl after my own heart! Motorbikes, India and a padded seat cushion! I have one too… what fun we […]