027 The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Architects - CHRIS COLLINSON talks about Building A House In The Indian Ghats

Travelling Through... London, the World and Life

CHRIS COLLINSON jacked in his job as a civil servant in London and set off to India with his city-loving (internationally-travelled) partner Shobha Das to build a home in the Ghats mountains of Kerala, a State in southern India where Shobha was born but had never lived until now. Two years on, I had the unexpected opportunity to catch up with Chris on a visit to London for a podcast chat and walk along the river Thames on a gloomy November day recently.

This is Chris' frank and inspiring interpretation of how life has changed for both him and Shobha living side by side in a habitat filled with elephants, snakes, leopards, wild dogs, butterflies and birds; and, respecting and marvelling at these creatures in equal measure.

Tune in to our chat for a unique understanding of how dramatically life can change if you want it to, while putting your fears in to a perspective to suit the situation in which you find yourself. Meantime we've got the sounds of London in the background of our podcast chat just to give you that London city context too. :)

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To find out more about Chris and Shobha's home-building project in Kerala, southern India go to the YouTube link:

Shobha and Chris' Wayanad Home Building Project

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TO KNOW MORE about your podcast host EMMA you can go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/

THANKS to MARISKA Martina at https://www.mariskamartina.com/ for creating our wonderful podcast jingle!

AND FINALLY, a big thanks to the River Thames "beach" foreshore for hosting this week's walking and talking podcast.

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