Thursday, June 26, 2008

Look carefully..


Yep, still in delhi! See you in a bit x

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Border ceremony


High kicks, stamping and loud music. A great piece of theatre at which we all clapped, shouted and laughed. Fabulous.

Temple at night


So we revisited at 10.30 at night. Vaguely cooler (32 and very humid) the temple was dazzling. Caroline is wearing a scarf blessed by the Karmapa (3rd most holy tibetan Lama), i have a silk hand loom number from Fabindia. Both are warm to wear.

Golden Amritsar


Really, by now you'd think we'd have learnt a few things.. We know what all the things on the menu are, why the man is selling piles of twigs and what wood they are. We know which way to walk around a temple.. But today we forgot the other rule of temple visiting, ie, don't go in the middle of the day when the heat and crowds both peak. Still beautiful though, even to us dimwits

Monday, June 23, 2008

How many men does it take to fix a pylon?


One, plus one to catch him if there's a problem and at least 4 to watch!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Paddy fields as far as the eye can see


In the Kangra valley, behind me are snow capped mountains, but they don't photograph against the white clouds.

Toy train arrives at the station.


Narrow guage, just like Cookham!

On the Kangra valley toy train



Baijnath temple



Friday, June 20, 2008