The Goddess Saraswati [An ancient wooden sculpture on loan from a museum situated in our hotel]
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The husband had worked there many years ago and the friendships from that time have lasted. Here we are visiting again and this time bringing the daughter (her first visit to South India).So many times have we taken her to the splendours of Rajasthan, residing and dining in that glorious land of forts and palaces so that she thought she was still living in her picture book stories of childhood.
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It seems that the theme of mountain power was still following me as I journeyed on from Peru into Bolivia.
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A three week visit to South America seemed a good way to celebrate our twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Machu Picchu was definitely going to be the star of the trip as far as I was concerned… and I wasn’t disappointed.
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Meh… another April day of chilly winds and rain, I am thinking to myself. Then my husband takes umbrage because I said he bought the wrong Coconut water.
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Christmas has disappeared; all that pizazz and cheeriness and homespun philosophy about the magic of a greater being are behind us. It is like one of these very important dreams that you have and you carry it around for days and it seems so real,then one day it has just disappeared from your consciousness as if it was never there. Such is the ephemeral nature of life.
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Spending three weeks in India just before Christmas felt wonderfully otherworldly.
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The outreaching tendrils of Christmas are being felt as we pass the landmark of Guy Fawkes. Stepping out of Selfridge’s on the evening of the fifth from our rooftop dining at Le Chalet we thought we were in a parallel Guy Fawkes as police vans filled with gun wielding officers dashed past us blue lights flashing. Was this another Gun Powder Plot? No just a normal London evening.
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After the last rather fraught few weeks I felt ready for a holiday. Husband, daughter and I set off for Palma, Spain. My thinking was that it would be good to go somewhere where we didn’t have to hub. Theoretically it was good thinking…
