Cafe' Coffee Day (and Barista) has cornered the market here for the quick or lingering coffee with friends, business associate, or just a place to hang out… Slightly different than the Bucks' at home (please … not in the coffee as you can customize it anyway you want and there is just as much, if…

Darren went to the store on the way home from work yesterday and picked up some canned tuna, onions, bread, tomatoes, "pizza cheese" – think white velvetta – and some "mayolite".  We were missing a few very important ingredients – mustard for one, pickles and celery.  Darren said he would have bought some colemans mustard but it…

Another thing I love about India is that their trucks are actually pretty to look at – veritable art works on wheels…I am actually thinking they deserve a bit more time so these are the ones I have shot thus far and will continue to add…. Also, interesting trivia from Shashi (the one who helps…

We have been doing a lot of driving erh…riding around the city getting documentation complete.  It has proven to be a great opportunity to capture images as we move through the neighborhoods and helps pass the time.  Here are a couple I have taken over the past few days that I really like…  Scrubies Rear…

Darren and I spent his birthday finding homes….and….we put an offer on a penthouse apartment with 3 bedrooms/3 baths today.  The bottom floor has the kitchen, living room, dining room, and 2 bedrooms and bathrooms.  The upstairs has the master suite.  The apartment is in a really good neighborhood and small building which is just…

Ok, so our new service apartment did not have a stove, freezer or a H2O purifier so literally 20 minutes after I posted the previous blog, we moved again – to the room upstairs and currently there are some nice gentlemen re-configuring our kitchenette and buying a new refrig/freezer combo.  This is the new kitchen,…

So we have moved out from underneath the airplanes midnight to 6 am flight path (ie -  the Inn Bangalore) and into our new, much smaller, but so much more quiet, service apartment.  It has been a bit of a hairdo (there was some negotiation that needed to take place after we were put in…

…..basically a thali lunch (veg) – accept for a chicken curry appetizer in the top  portion of the leaf and WOW was it good!  The meal consisted of sambar (my new favorite thing in the world – basically a tomato and random other vegatable spicy soup that seems to be served with every meal in…

Ok, so there are fruit carts everywhere here and the displays of fruit are incredable….my mouth starts watering when I see them.  According to many locals we have spoken with, the supermarkets are selling the same stuff as the street vendors but the street vendors fruit is more fresh…not sure but they are very appealing…

It is great when what you see is what you get – cause at least then, you know what you are dealing with.  This is decidedly not so in the arena of service apartments in Bangalore.   After starting off our move to this fair city in a service apartment that was directly underneath the…