I had a really funny title to this entry, but like much of my funniest material it got rejected by The Censor. As a citizen-journalist I consider this an egregious violation of my First Amendment rights, but alas, domestic tranquility must prevail. No doubt my solution will win me loads of points for this weekend.
Seven [...]
Archive for September, 2007
The no-name blog entry
Posted in Dharamsala, India, traffic, train, travel on 28 September, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Thank God I’m a White Boy
Posted in Amritsar, India, Religion, train, travel on 23 September, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I think I’ll tell the tale of our fifth-anniversary trip to Amritsar in a series of vignettes. At the end I promise to pull some of it together in a way that explains my title, which Mrs. WMG is worried sounds racist but that I think is merely provocatively politically incorrect and expresses a thought [...]
On the Way to The Golden Temple
Posted in Amritsar, India, train, travel on 21 September, 2007 | 1 Comment »
First class trains in India are dead boring. Our last overnight train journey took us to Rajasthan in western India Our berth mates on that trip were an Army Major from Jaiselmer, a woman traveler from Brazil and a couple from France who joined us at about three o’clock in the morning. We were in second class for [...]
It’s A Small World After All
Posted in Delhi, India, chance, travel on 19 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
(by guest blogger: Tracy)
I’ve not “coincidentally” run into anyone from High School since graduation. Until we moved to India. On Saturday WMG and I treated ourselves to lunch at the Hyatt Hotel in Delhi. They serve steak sandwiches to fulfil WMG’s ever-present longing for beef, and a salad bar full of raw vegetables, [...]
The Romans never made it to India
Posted in Gurgaon, India, monsoon on 19 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Monty Python film “The Life of Brian” is a culturally defining film for Britain the way that Gone With the Wind is for the US. This speaks volumes about exactly how different these two societies really are – but let’s save that for another time. In an hilarious scene from this film set in [...]
Not much
Posted in Delhi, India on 10 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There hasn’t been all that much going on around here lately so the blog has been a little sparse. We’ve canceled two trips to Amritsar, once because there wasn’t time to sort it out and the next time because I was ill (we are currently suspicious of the swimming pool water).
We had a couple of visitors [...]
Why did we come to India? – Version 2
Posted in India, travel on 3 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Inspired by IndexedÂ
Why did we come to India?
Posted in India, travel on 3 September, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I thought this summed it up. (from http://indexed.blogspot.com/)
