Stephen Duxbury is seen catching up with the news back home during a trip to India.
He is snapped enjoying the sunshine in Kerala, south of Goa.
He and Richard Watkinson spent a fortnight in the remote destination. The relatively unvisited area, where last year only one flight per week arrived from the UK, has a very short season of only November-March per year. Also, it is the only place in the world where three seas meet - the Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.
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