Every 3-4 years, I think “I’m ready for India again” and every 3-4 hours after arriving, I think “Why do I keep doing this to myself?” It’s a common conundrum, the love/hate relationship those not-from-India often have with it—much of it stemming from our inability to figure it out. India will make you feel small, dumb, illiterate and pedantic. But in return, you get India—the colors and spices and scenes and stories… of which we have lots of.
In fact, I only spent 12 days there, yet come bearing more gifts than two months in South Korea.
India is rich with many things, fodder being perhaps the most.
So what we got? Heaps!
-By request, a first-person experience visiting the Taj Mahal
-A recipe of the most incredible and indescribable dessert I’ve had in a long time
-India in pictures, of course, as no other country photographs quite like it
-Thoughts on Delhi (spoiler: they ain’t good)
-Another recipe, this time Mr. Singh’s Magic Chai (spoiler: it is good)
-Another first-person video, a walk through the absolutely mental Chandni Chowk, a 17th century market, the biggest in Delhi
… and more!
So sit back, prepare your eyes (and ears) for life being turned up to 11 and let’s head to the subcontinent.
A LOT, right?
Again, as I sit here in the peaceful Tokyo, where things are the price they say, where honking is seemingly illegal and where quiet goes to be quiet, it’s a trip thinking that just a few days ago, we were in the middle of it all.
I’m quite opinionated when it comes to traveling there, if you can't tell, yet another razor’s edge of being honest and/or not giving it all away and/or scaring you off and/or coming across colonial.
Should this be somewhere you’re considering, however, I beg of you a conversation first… as I wish someone had had it with me.
As for bucks, yes! Am in need of bucks! Japan in April is crazy expensive (we’re sadly going to have to miss Kyoto because of it and make a beeline for the bike and start pedaling), so totally accepting any help you might have.
Must run, though.
Ramen calls.
Talk to you next month!
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