Since my last blog, I have been working and feeling back to normal. Well this weekend I finally went to Mysore. I went with a couple of work colleagues to make it fun. The journey is a long one with good roads so we left at 8am in the morning. It took an hour to get out of Bangalore. The road in Bangalore is bumpy and not always good. Once we go...

So....bad news first. For some strange reason all our photos were deleted off the camera memory card last we tried to upload, but it's still registering the memory being taken up. Is it possible for a camera memory card to get a virus? If anyone has any advice we would be grateful to hear it. We have lost all photos except those put on this blog...

Bonne annee a tous! tous mes meilleurs voeux de bonheur et de sante. C'est bon d'etre a Mysore, bien sure il faut un temps d'adaptation, a la salete, la polution, le bruit,au fait que tu n'arrive pas a te faire comprendre et que rien ne va comme prevu, d'ailleurs il ne faut rien prevoir, je me suis remise de mes 3 jours de voyage,la partie la pl...

The title of this entry comes from my friend/coworker Debbie after a very strange week. Wednesday night 3 of my girl friends and I went out into Mysore to find a tailor for our Salwar Kameezes. So after waiting for the bus for almost an hour (Indian buses don't really have 'schedules' in the traditional sense) , we persuaded a rickshaw driver to...

Ca fait bizzare de savoir que je quitte l'Inde demain soir, je me sens tellement "at home"... Hier je suis alle a la piscine dans un trou perdu ou l'on peut se mettre en maillot, au palais de la femme du Maharaja, il fait tres chaud la journee et il faut etre couvert de la tete aux pieds, bras couverts (pour les femmes bien entendu), ca faisait ...

Oh, Mysore, my sore ass, that is. . It did not take all that long to reach there, I took frequent breaks, a coconut here, some chai there, etc. and eventually reached the city center. It was not so hard to find a room as there are many lodges clearly marked and in competition with each other. The best price I could get, however, was 300 rupees, ...

Of course I got a late start, it was hard to leave Hampi, but the NH 4 was a proper highway most of the way toward Bangalore with two lanes on either side, so I was making good time for most of the time. Calling my contact in Bangalore, a friend of a friend who had lived in the US for a time, I realized that it might not be time to go to Bangalo...

I had a great sleep last night,and I really feel I have got most of the demons out of my mind. I had more strange dreams, this time about an ex-girlfriend of mine, LL. Todays plan was to check out of the hotel,put my bag into 'left luggage' at the station , and explore the town and Chamundi Hill. I got a tuk tuk eventually to take me to Chamundi...