Articles from the time when I was living in India between 2002 – 2010 – after USA, before NL.
29 Sep 2009 “Goa in the rains” has been this concept in my mind and Ashok’s for over a year. Finally made it this year, at the tail-end of the monsoon – 4 days at the end of September. With Rohit, Akash, Aditi, and Ashok. It did rain on the first afternoon that we reached…..
1st Jan 2008 I wake up early on new year’s day for a change. My father would be proud of me. Madhavan in a rash moment had promised to come with the kids and me for a ramble on some hills this morning. It takes some reminding, but he does come with us, muttering to…
Made some progress this morning – woke up another 15 mins earlier, but still the vultures are way ahead of me. The various colored and flavored darjeeling teas are being put to good use. We spend a lot of the morning playing badminton on an uneven grass surface. The only significant event is Akash is…
The night is incident free – Akash has gotten more used to the toad, and we’ve moved Aditi to milk powder – Rohit figured the change in milk consistency is the cause of her puke problems. It does work, and as I said, the night is incident free. I try and I try and manage…
The next morning I wake up late in spite of going to bed relatively early. Gotto do something about this constant feeling of not enough sleep. Waking up at 7:30 am is late by Thekambattu standards. My late morning excuses are strong though – Akash, being afraid of a toad in the bathroom, decides to…
A family holiday after ages… and for Rohit, a reunion with Sunder and Sonati after several ages. We set out early from my brother’s place in B’lore to catch the Intercity train that is to take us to Salem. Having added several buffers of time (extra for each additional kid and each additional piece of…
After a good deep sleep night, I wake up early. It’s my turn to potter about in the room. Our last day in Kathmandu – there are some sight seeing plans. After a relaxed morning of pottering, getting ready and breakfasting, we head down and find a cranky driver and outwardly patient Shishir waiting for…
Rafting day! Sadly none of us have slept enough. We walk into breakfast like zombies. I can’t face a veggie cutlet today. The checking out and formalities are done. I am sorrowful about leaving the Fishtail Lodge behind. Can’t take it along, silly. For the last time we are pulled in that stately raft by…
Our “extra” holiday in Pokhara. The other two have tucked into breakfast. In fact we’re in danger of missing breakfast, that’s how late we wake up. We scramble to the dining hall and find reasonable leftovers in the buffet breakfast. I spot MShah walking around the garden by herself. Sadly there’s no watermelon juice. I…
We know today is a short trekking day, so we’re in no big hurry to leave. MShah and Kanaks are down at breakfast already when I come down. I wolf down a couple of boiled eggs. Nitya breaks open a boiled egg and it turns out to be runny (yuck yuck!). Breakfast done, we set out,…
