Saturday, October 15, 2005

A lazy desi's attempt at europe travelling

Finally i had some real life experience at being a mother ... Serena, have you done your home work, Serena, have some salad, Serena dont say that, its impolite....More than all that, three hours of ice skating, baking and making chocoloate cakes, looking up the Kino schedule for Wallace and Gromit ... not to mention giving hugs .... its exhausting, challenging, fulfilling and definately out of the itinary for now!
Anyway ... what i decided to do (instead of eating keema and rice) is to post some pics on ....
so happy viewing ... while i do some "pet puja" .....


Starting from marseille, a drive along the coast got us to the city limits. From there
a walk along the calonques - follwing the black line .... and after just one wrong turn and a couple of slippery rocks, we reached this habour. It can be reached either by boat or by walking. A nice rocky beach where the sea gulls attached our slippers... and where i snorkelled for the first time in my life! After a few hours of swimming, some lazing in the sun rounded off by a drink of moresque, we started back for the city ... The day's delights were improved(?) increased(?) by the paanch mishali in the evening....


The same cove from another side...

Change of scene. change of city, change of country ....
Rowing along the canals in leiden ... actually the second time i have ever rowed in my life! the first ofcourse being in nanital - like all good delhites!!! We kidnapped some people from the banks, a fishing rod (returned it ofcourse) and landed on uncharted (?) territories (backyard of a friends house), and got chased (by the owner of the boat on a bike) and ...

Thursday, October 06, 2005

A lazy desi's guide to Moresque


4 parts pastis
1 part sirop d'orgeat (almond syrup)
5 parts eau (ice cold water)




A perfect refreshing drink for a hot summer day!
The drink which brings back many memories - walks down the calonques, chatting, giggling, lots of swimming, some snorkelling and wonderful cold pastis ...

A lazy desi's first attempt at blogging!

Finally some tech-savy blogging!
I had been using my friends as blogs till recently - henceforth
you will be the blog-victim ...

So a big thanks to every one reading this!

Some words of wisdom for my very first post -
Sleep deep!