nilgiri tea plantations

September 19, 2014/Paul Windsor/

I have fallen in love … with tea plantations. Given that I am a teetotaller (as in totally-tea, I guess), one day I plan to eschew the pub-crawl in favour of a plantation-crawl around South Asia. Sri Lanka. Nilgiris. Darjeeling. Assam. Any takers?!

You don’t think I am serious, do you?
You don’t know me :).

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the art of unpacking

After a childhood in India, a theological training in the USA and a pastoral ministry in Southland (New Zealand), I spent twenty years in theological education in New Zealand — first at Laidlaw College and then at Carey Baptist College, where I served as principal. In 2009 I began working with Langham Partnership and since 2013 I have been the Programme Director (Langham Preaching). Through it all I've cherished the experience of the 'gracious hand of God upon me' and I've relished the opportunity to 'unpack', or exegete, all that I encounter in my walk through life with Jesus.

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  1. Unknown on September 21, 2014 at 9:38 am

    Marian says she's in for the plantation crawl.

    Mark

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  2. GoodyGoodies on September 22, 2014 at 9:00 am

    I'm going to Sri Lanka next summer–tea plantations are on our list! Thanks, Paul, for confirming that they will be worth keeping on our itinerary!

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  3. the art of unpacking on September 22, 2014 at 12:59 pm

    OK, M&Ms – name the time and let's get this crawl under way.

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  4. the art of unpacking on September 22, 2014 at 1:05 pm

    Goodies – maybe you can beat me to the trip I'd love to do. I've been to Kandy a couple of times, but it is the train trip from Kandy to Badula (with a side-trip to Nuwara Eliya) that I am lining up to do one day. Best wishes.

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  5. Unknown on May 26, 2018 at 9:19 pm

    Amazing article thank you for this information. Devans.

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