Meet Haarkon
Top of our lists, always: impromptu trips, long-planned holidays, or weekend jaunts to the hills. We’ll take travel any way we can get it, and living, as we do, in…
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Holiday Essentials
At Nicobar, we like to travel light, unencumbered by heavy bags full of things we thought we’d need. We believe that holidays should be filled with spontaneous detours, and nothing…
Zero waste travel: Talking trash with Sahar Mansoor
The quandary of travel: travel, and you contribute to one of the largest sources of waste and greenhouse gas emissions there is. Don’t travel and you miss the majesty of…
Fabrics of Nico: Travel
Design is as much about the unseen as the seen. Often considered a surface attribute, with all focus on the finished product, what differentiates a design object from an ordinary…
Postcard from Kochi: Chinese fishing nets
Just metres from Brunton Boatyard, right by the water’s edge and in the very centre of Fort Kochi’s rumpus, are the Chinese Fishing Nets. These giant installations are truly iconic,…
Packing within a baggage allowance: Pound for pound
If you’re anything like us, your top travel fear is leaving something behind. If you’re anything like us, this likely results in a tendency to overpack. At one point our…
Postcard from Kochi: The Brunton Boatyard
Just down the road from David Hall is The Brunton Boatyard Hotel. When you walk onto this beautiful, sprawling property, you walk right back in time and into a Victorian…