Izzie and I are back from our lovely month long monsoon escape to London. We really loved seeing friends, clean green streets, orderly traffic and shopping in Waitrose : ) but then again we missed the chaos and un-expected that each day brings in India.
Sensory overload on a trip into Mumbai this week. In one hour & a half we saw:
Sensory overload on a trip into Mumbai this week. In one hour & a half we saw:
- 4 men playing cards in the middle of a paddock between the highways
- Rubbish on the roof of houses - storage space or holding it down in the monsoon winds?
- A man selling old fashioned Gramophones on the side of the highway in the middle of no where
- Tiny kids all alone on a school bus - maybe 18 months old
- People riding & sleeping on fruit & vege in the back of tuk tuk trucks
- People holding up umbrella's while riding motor & push bikes
- Kids asleep on motorbikes
- Ladies carrying a weeks worth of shopping on their heads
- Stray & pet cows wondering the roads & footpaths
- Nude kids
- Kids doing their number 2 business on the footpath
- Stray dogs hanging out in packs discussing their next meal
- Everyone using plastic bags instead of handbags/backpacks
- A million tuk tuk's buzzing in and out of traffic
- Traffic police helping (hindering) traffic flow
- Overloaded bicycles and hand carts with all sorts of weird & wonderful objects
- A new fashion - bubble wrap jackets
- Various sized Ganesha idols being transported in trucks to ponds or the sea accompanied by drummers & people dancing
- Loads of washing hanging on the safety rails in the middle of the road
- Pot holes the size of Izzie's paddling pool
- Man having a wash in a bucket on a busy street
- Gross paan masala being spat everywhere
We reached our expat bubble (fancy pants hotel) & enjoyed a well deserved coffee after our accidental sightseeing journey.
