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Port Outbound, Starboard Home: Goodbye, India (For Now)
Home beckons, and my bags are packed. I’ll miss India, this land of mystery, so full of contrasts and surprises. Immense cultural wealth in such crushing poverty. An overriding drive to be better, with so many barriers to improvement. So many spices and flavors in their food, and so little food to share.
Good thing I [...] Read more »
Gandhi’s Birthday Feast
Today is Gandhi’s Birthday, a major holiday in India. He is revered as the father of modern India, now 60+ years ago. A man of strong will and gentle ways, he led the (mostly) nonviolent ejection of the British from their largest colony, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine three times. He [...] Read more »
Working Hard for You: Buffet Grazing in Hyderabad
There are so many good things to eat in India that I’m glad my hotel serves several buffets each day. It doesn’t matter to me that they feel obliged to serve Western and Far Eastern style dishes to accommodate the range of their visitors. I wave hi as I go by the maitre d’hotel (who [...] Read more »
Visiting the Taj Krishna Hotel and Resort, Hyderabad
I traveled Sunday from Bangalore to Hyderabad to continue my frantic search for fantastic curries consulting trip. The flight was short and uneventful, although the ride out to the new Bangalore International Airport was touch-and-go, and the trek from Hyderabad’s new Rajiv Ghandi Airport in to the city was also exciting (in the Chinese sense [...] Read more »
Chicken Biryani for Lunch
All day Saturday in the classroom, instead of playing tourist.
Oh well, that’s what I signed up for. Get the work out of the way early, then on to play! Or at least looking around.
There were compensations, however. For instance, traffic to the site was quite low, with not even one massive logjam in the eight [...] Read more »
Breakfast Buffet in Bengaluru
I made it fine into Bengaluru, although it was 2 AM before I got to the hotel and got settled. A few hours of refreshing sleep and I was ready to go!
Breakfast buffet is included in my room fee, and since it was dinnertime (according to my tummy) I was ready to try out a [...] Read more »
Welcome to India: Lamb Masala and German Beer
For the first time, I foud out it’s possible for me to get bored in an airport.
I know you might find that odd. Your experience is probably more typical; all airports are boring. But I love travel and flying, and I avidly watch all sorts of mechanisms that fly. It was a shock to me, [...] Read more »
Thai Curry at Angels 350
The Chile Underground’s Grand India Tour and Month-Long Snarf-Fest Curry Expedition got off to a prosaic, even mudane start, with a short hop from Austin to Dallas. With winds from the north at both airports (Thank You Gustav!), the pilot barely had to maneuver at all; up and down, 31 minutes and done. Shoot, I [...] Read more »
