Hope is here.  She's the first visitor i have had from the blog world - Rob Paterson's daughter. Follow her tales of her travels to Asia at her blog - ourgeneralstore - insightful and terribly amusing :)

I am so enjoying having her with me - she's young, fresh, vibrant, intelligent, very warm - with her feet on the ground and a heart of gold.  And best of all, a complete foodie like me. She is like an Indian in so many ways .  She loves spices - she's been attacking all my pickle jars and eats raw green chillies (the really hot ones) with her daal-chawal !  Last night we took her to our favourite seafood restaurant, Mahesh, and i saw her enjoying licking the last dregs of masala from the crab, off her fingers, like a true Indian.

And here she is getting cooking lessons from the lady who cooks for us ...... they needed no language to communicate and connect - my maid speaks no english and Hope no Gujarati - but communicate they did - and she might just teach me a few things about Gujarati cuisine now.

Yesterday she set loose on Mumbai - here's her account of her day- brought a smile to my face - the city can be overwhelming.

Tomorrow we go off to Khandala for Diwali - its a 5 day weekend here and we're just going to cook and eat and sleep and read and watch movies and plant and listen to the birds .......

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