It's not about me, really

Dani and Elise wanted to hear a little more about my husband’s trip to India last week so instead of devoting a post to the fact that yesterday I spent most of my day in the basement trying to mop up 4 centimetres of water due to a broken water pump, I will tell you a bit more about where my sweetheart went (whose name is Kenneth by the way). I’m thinking you’ll like this post better anyway. It definitely has better pictures!

So, the place he had to travel to is called Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay). Wikipedia tells me it’s the second most populous city in the world and it’s the commercial centre of India. Kenneth told me it was hot and humid and the women dressed in beautiful colourful sari’s. He did see the Gate of India, the first thing visitors arriving by boat see of Mumbai. Wikipedia tells me it looks like this (he didn’t take any camera with him):

Now it is mango season in India. They are very proud of their Alphonso mango’s. Kenneth said there were mango’s everywhere: pieces of fruit to be eaten for breakfast, mango juices freshly squeezed (can you squeeze a mango?), mango for dessert and so on. He brought home over a dozen mango’s. My daughter likes them. I tried a teeny tiny bit. Kenneth said it was a tiny teensy weensy bit. So far as I could tell from that tiny bit it was ‘carrot meets pumpkin’. Not my thing really.

He brought back these handcarved wooden figurines representing the god Ganesh. Wikipedia tells me he is apparently the most worshipped god in India. He is the god of knowledge and wisdom, remover of obstacles and protects travellers. Kenneth told me he bargained for the price and that there were also figurines with an everlasting smell costing 10 times as much.

He also brought back some toys (for the kids obviously) and I got some ALIEN (as in a large bottle of the Thierry Mugler perfume).


I’ve never been to India myself. It’s actually not even on my wish list of places I’d like to visit. I’m sure there are beautiful things to be seen out there, but there are just other places I’d rather see if I were to have the time and money.

Edit:

My wish list includes in random order: Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Australia, New Zealand & Canada

So far I've been to The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Andorra, England & Greece

The furthest I’ve been is to the States.

Where have you been?