Mumbai Magic

We moved to Mumbai on Monday!  Arriving in at 1am was a good plan as the airport & roads were a little less busy and the temperature just right for winter. Pancarsh picked us up along with our 10 suitcases and we were off through the night dodging cow's and rickshaw's.  Izzie was intrigued with the horn going beep beep every 2 seconds.

The hotel apartment was barely 3 star but twice as spacious as our London terrace - wouldn't be hard tho : )
I burst out laughing as I entered the kitchen -  the oven than Danny had especially requested was circa 1960 and very rusty and generally grotty.  It was powered by a giant & very old gas bottle hiding in the kitchen cupboard. It looked set to blow any minute!

Monday was a roller coaster with jetlag combined with the joy of finding a great supermarket in Powaii that stocks all the usual western products and also Natures Basket which has loads of gluten free, diary free, organic products for Izzie. We visited our new apartment at Seawoods later that evening and as expected it was a complete building site after being promised it would be ready last Friday.  I can see the potential amongst the wires, broken concrete & dirt so must be patient and sit tight for another couple of days, weeks, months ...who knows : )

So with the oven a complete health & safety risk Mukesh and Asha took us to the Reliance Electrical store in Vashi.  It had all the brand names and the prices to match.  We choose a multi purpose convection microwave oven for about 100 pounds. It was like any normal transaction until they took it out of the box and plugged into a socket to show me it worked ok - everyone knows you shouldn't start a microwave with nothing in it!!  About 10 people gathered at the check out to ensure the credit card went through - much to my horror it was 3rd card lucky.  Next we walked 5 metres to another check out accompanied with our small crowd of helpers to get the receipt stamped then finally we were allowed to take the very large box to the very small car.
This morning the front gate called but I had no idea what they were saying. I have since learned it was an agent from the appliance store coming to give me a demonstration on my fancy new gadget. Service like no other : )

All set to try out the new oven Izzie and I whipped up a gluten free, egg free, diary free cake today but doh we don't have a cake tin so we microwaved it....Lucky she isn't fussy when it comes to cake!