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Ta-ra t’Raj

So my sojourn to India has come to an end. I’m currently writing this sat at a bus stop outside Mumbai airport – I’ve arrived a tad too early for my flight and the man with the machine gun at the door won’t let me into the terminal. I have mixed feelings about my time [...]

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Oct 26 2010
Slow mooving traffic

I’ve mentioned earlier how crazy the traffic is in India. Aside from the bonkers car and rickshaw drivers, the roads have to contend with beggars, street hawkers, families piled onto motorbikes and, most randomly, cattle. Cows are bloomin’ everywhere. They’re grazing on the motorway...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Oct 25 2010
The opposite of slumming it

For the first time in nearly a fortnight, I managed to sleep properly last night. Partly it was because there was a bolt on my bedroom door (I’m paranoid about sleeping in hotels by myself, regardless of which country I’m in), but mainly it was because I wasn’t attempting to rest my...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Sun, Oct 24 2010
Taxing taxi talk

Having spent the last two weeks practicing it, I’ve become rather adept in the art of pidgin to try and make myself understood here in India. So adept, in fact, that I’ve inadvertently started speaking in loud, slow, broken English all the time. Which is why today’s exchange outside...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Sun, Oct 24 2010
Using larvae to help India’s farmers

Have you missed me? I’ve been out at the sticks checking out farms and they don’t tend to have much tinterweb access there. Or electricity, for that matter… I know I’m pretty lucky to be seeing parts of India that your general tourist wouldn’t have a chance to see, but I...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Sat, Oct 23 2010
Farming science, a flight and a freak-out

So had I a bit of a wobble yesterday. The stress of nearly being kidnapped, coupled with a hair-raising five-hour drive from Hisar back to Delhi so I could catch a flight to Mumbai (or Bombay, if you insist on being colonial) got to me. It’s a tad exhausting being on edge for hour after [...]

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Oct 20 2010
The fastest-growing milkmen in the Punjab

I’m getting a bit behind in my posts here so I’ll try and quickly fill you in on the dairy I visited on Monday (I just had to get my diary to check then – I’ve completely lost track of days in this place). As I said in my previous post, I’d travelled about 300km [...]

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Oct 20 2010
So who’d pay the ransome?

There was a good few minutes yesterday afternoon when I genuinely thought I was being kidnapped. It says a lot about me that during that time I a) updated my Facebook status with words to that effect and b) started thinking about whether I could surreptitiously hide my iPhone in my shoe without it being...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Oct 19 2010
Paint job

I’m back in Delhi in preparation for some farm trips tomorrow and staying in what is probably my favourite hotel so far. I ask you, dear reader, how would you describe this decor? Well, apparently I’m experiencing “the feel of an English wooden villa with a beautiful lookalike of the...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Sun, Oct 17 2010
The long and crazy road

Guess who got run into by a motorbike today? Given the amount of bonkers drivers around here, I figured it was only a matter of time before I saw an accident, I just didn’t think I was going to be involved in one. Before anyone (i.e., mother) panics, I should point out that no Caroline’s...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Sun, Oct 17 2010

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