salaam bombay...

So the real reason we were not able to leave on Sunday... or Monday, was because walking, fish eating, chocolate indulging and shopping were all waiting for us!!! What else would one do in Bombay?; ok, granted, partying at night, but we were fresh just out of vipassana with our bodies waking up by 5 or 6 automatically and dead tired by 9pm! That left us with a whole lotta day time to kill!

Nisarga had not reallly seen Bombay, having been there twice but under precarious circumstances each time. The first time he was there for 24 hours in a hole in the wall hotel upon first landing in India on his first trip, and he hated it and quickly moved on to Pune. The second time was end of Jan, when he had a cast on and given that no city in India is really handicap friendly (Bombay certainly being no exception) the only place he really saw was Harris’s apartment. This time was different!

We walked around the Churchgate, Fort Area and down to Colaba to the Gateway to India. We stopped for cane juice and coconut water on the street. We checked out goods on offer at vendor stalls. We had brunch at a cozy european style cafe, which included me having a toasted bagel! We shopped for almost 3 hours for Nisarga’s Indian make-over. He was such a good sport, he tried on over a dozen kurtas of various lengths, pyjamas, churidars and even a doti! (Come on, it has been a year now that he has been in India and only one kurta and some t-shirts to show for it!) Now fabulously Indian, we had a yummy seafood late lunch and then continued shopping a bit more!

Three main meals in 3 days and all consisted of seafood and chocolate desert. One thing is for sure... Bombay has got to be the best city in all of india for chocolate deserts!!! Thank you Bombay!