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India: If She’s Been Calling You, You Should Go
Has India been calling you? Her seductive voice reaching out and invading your imagination? The sounds of sitars and manjira filling your mind? The aromas of cardamom, ginger, cloves and turmeric tickling your nose? Then you should go. Have you been wondering if you can do it? You can. Everyone’s experience is different and many [...]
Continue reading...Leaving India: One Year Ago
14. December 2010
We left India a year ago today. We left in a state of deep despair; saddened that it wasn’t working out, wondering what it was going to mean for us, and fearful that it would mean the worst… that we were going to have to go home. For a long time I couldn’t talk about [...]
Continue reading...India Is Hard
18. November 2010
We entered India one year ago today. It is a place that I had been looking forward to seeing for many, many years. I was nervous and apprehensive but, more-so, I was excited. Finally I would be able to see what this great, magical country had to offer. I learned, more than anything, that India [...]
Continue reading...Best! Decision! Ever!
19. December 2009
There wasn’t any one event that made us leave India early. There was no tragic event, no-one was unkind, we didn’t get robbed or ripped off, we didn’t even get really sick. Sure, in the end, we did both have bad colds that made it that much harder to deal with, but it wasn’t like [...]
Continue reading...The Old One, Two Knock Out Punch
13. December 2009
We entered the ring with more bravado than we felt. India in one corner, looming large and wearing her well deserved big, shiny, heavyweight champions belt…us in the other corner wearing our six months of travel like it really mattered. She took the first punch…Delhi…a hazy, smoggy, smelly, garbage-filled, poverty ridden soupy mess of a [...]
Continue reading...Happy Birthday To Us!
1. December 2009
The rest of India faded into the background as we entered through the doors. The flowery scent of incense greeted us, pulling us into the calm wood interior. Checking in was made extra special as the manager was summoned to greet us personally…you see, we had emailed ahead to let the manager know that we [...]
Continue reading...Smelly Delhi
25. November 2009
Well…we’re here. And it’s actually not as smelly as I had expected. Don’t get me wrong…it smells, but not everywhere, not all the time. Certainly the burning garbage in the street smells, and the ‘public toilets’ smell (no, I haven’t actually been in one…mostly they look like walls along which everyone urinates…unavoidable and gross), and [...]
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Wanna-be expat. Giant Stepper. 
Welcome to OneGiantStep.
I'm Gillian. In 2009 my partner, Jason, and I set out to travel the world for a year.
Now we're looking for something more long term; a place outside of our 'home and native land' to hang our hat; another Giant Step along the path.
Come along as we figure out where to go and how to get there.
28. December 2010
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