We've had such a busy and hectic lead up to the move to get over here to India, we haven't actually chilled out together for probably 6 weeks at least. We are here and there's an available weekend off for Bruce to relax.
After a late breakfast in the hotel restaurant followed by a visit to the hotel rooftop to check out the days activities of the locals below, we took a stroll to our new house location about 10 minutes walk away. As we've not before orientated ourselves to the conveniences to our new home, we took a good look around on foot, checking out the in's and outs of whats close by. It looks very convienient to everything so we're very pleased about that.
We found our way up onto the rooftop of our house also. Indian houses all have rooftop areas.....it's a feeling of freedom and you can see for miles (well at least as far as the smog allows...). The bird life is very abundant with huge eagles gracing the skies waiting to swoop and clutch an unsuspecting squirrel for its lunch.
We called into a little bakery & sweets shop to have a look at what unusual wares they vendored. The shopkeeper insisted we taste test his Indian sweets, so I'm really not sure what we were eatting, however they were tasty and opulent looking. He was telling us they had crushed flowers in them. You don't see sweets of that sort in Australia.....
We wandered the streets and found Indias answer to Max Brenner....'The Chocolate Room'! We didn't indulge ourselves but many were sipping on the thick hot Choc drinks served in the typical egg shaped China mugs.
We weaved the lane ways then successfully negotiated the hectic midday traffic of the main road taking us back to our hotel.
Sitting at the writing desk in the hotel room looking out onto the street hived with activity of late Saturday afternoon in Vadodara, I chance see a sight too good not to excite my electrician husband by extreme lack of work place health and safety....a long and lanky Indian shimmying up the electric lamp post to change an expired light bulb, swinging off electrical wires as he went. This place is so exciting.....if you snooze you lose!
Tonight we have a dinner date with another expat couple who arrived here in India on the same day as us. They are French Expats who work for another company here in Vadodara different to that of Bruce's. I met the woman Andree a few days ago so think we'll be doing quite a few things together over the upcoming months.
Bruce checking out a Tandoor oven.
Merryn with the Tandoor oven.
Rooftop view from our new house.
View from rooftop of our house
The neighbours.
More views from the rooftop.
An arcade shopping centre close by to our house.
Stores decorated to entice customers!
Setting up for a wedding celebration across the road from our hotel.
An assortment of Indian sweets and bakery goodies!
We've had such a busy and hectic lead up to the move to get over here to India, we haven't actually chilled out together for probably 6 weeks at least. We are here and there's an available weekend off for Bruce to relax.
After a late breakfast in the hotel restaurant followed by a visit to the hotel rooftop to check out the days activities of the locals below, we took a stroll to our new house location about 10 minutes walk away. As we've not before orientated ourselves to the conveniences to our new home, we took a good look around on foot, checking out the in's and outs of whats close by. It looks very convienient to everything so we're very pleased about that.
We found our way up onto the rooftop of our house also. Indian houses all have rooftop areas.....it's a feeling of freedom and you can see for miles (well at least as far as the smog allows...). The bird life is very abundant with huge eagles gracing the skies waiting to swoop and clutch an unsuspecting squirrel for its lunch.
We called into a little bakery & sweets shop to have a look at what unusual wares they vendored. The shopkeeper insisted we taste test his Indian sweets, so I'm really not sure what we were eatting, however they were tasty and opulent looking. He was telling us they had crushed flowers in them. You don't see sweets of that sort in Australia.....
We wandered the streets and found Indias answer to Max Brenner....'The Chocolate Room'! We didn't indulge ourselves but many were sipping on the thick hot Choc drinks served in the typical egg shaped China mugs.
We weaved the lane ways then successfully negotiated the hectic midday traffic of the main road taking us back to our hotel.
Sitting at the writing desk in the hotel room looking out onto the street hived with activity of late Saturday afternoon in Vadodara, I chance see a sight too good not to excite my electrician husband by extreme lack of work place health and safety....a long and lanky Indian shimmying up the electric lamp post to change an expired light bulb, swinging off electrical wires as he went. This place is so exciting.....if you snooze you lose!
Tonight we have a dinner date with another expat couple who arrived here in India on the same day as us. They are French Expats who work for another company here in Vadodara different to that of Bruce's. I met the woman Andree a few days ago so think we'll be doing quite a few things together over the upcoming months.
What do you mean WHS??? I see nothing wrong with this! Hehehe....
There's always more than one way to change a lightbulb....... No Cherry picker required here!
WOW girl, what a busy little time you have had. How very exciting. This is my first look at your blog. What on earth are you going to do with yourself over there while Bruce is working? Keep up the blogging, I love reading your adventures. Keep them stored away for when I get myself in the travel mode.