You can read my previous posts about my trip in India: Reflections of India; Desi Chinese, Ice Cream, Dabeli and Other Street Food in India; Mumbai – Bombay : Traffic and Bollywood; An Indian Wedding Ceremony and Feast in India, and Gandhi, Dandi Beach, and Eating Sugar Cane in India. One of the most famous…
Gandhi, Dandi Beach, and Eating Sugar Cane in India
Yesterday commemorated the 60th anniversary of the death of Gandhi, India’s “Father of the Nation.” His relatives spread some of his ashes in the bay of Mumbai / Bombay, in the same water I saw last month. I mentioned that when I first arrived in India, I was staying in a town near Surat, Gujarat,…
An Indian Wedding Ceremony and Feast in India
We went to India to be with good friends, but we were also lucky to be able to be together for a special reason: our friend’s wedding. While in India, we also inadvertently crashed another wedding celebration while we there. In my friend’s father’s village in Gujarat, there was another wedding taking place. This time…
Mumbai – Bombay : Traffic and Bollywood
We spent a lot of time moving around Mumbai as it was where we flew in/out of and the home base for the wedding, and we spent most of our time in Mumbai in a car. In Mumbai, a city where the distance between two points is measured not by kilometers or miles, but by…
Desi Chinese, Ice Cream, Dabeli and Other Street Food in India
We were pretty lucky with our experiences eating in India. We didn’t experience any of the chronic bowel problems I’ve heard about, though we invented a new acronym for what we sometimes did experience – SBE – Sudden Bowel Evacuation – which hit every once and a while and afterward we were fine for a…