It’s here, a two week trip through India! I have been waiting for months and am SO excited to be back. I don’t know what it is about India, but I land here and all the craziness, the fast-paced everything, the traffic and pollution and noise, all comes back to me, it’s overwhelming… and I love it.
This time, I have Andre with me, who is here experiencing all of this for the first time! We have a week planned in Rajasthan, Agra and Varanasi, playing tourists, then a week in Kerala down south, where we will basically be sitting on a beach and chilling out!
Our initial flight lands in Bangalore and gives us a day there to explore, before moving on to the north. Walking around, we come to the center of town, to the local park and then to a number of restaurants nearby. It’s Saturday and lunchtime, so most of these restaurants are packed. We find the restaurant suggested to us… and find it to be closed down for renovations! Right… so we head back to the last restaurant we saw with a huge queue outside. They manage to sit us in minutes… and we really have to make an effort with the menu, as there are at least 50 options to choose from.
Jetlagged, we go for easy options, a vegetarian thai coconut curry, and a vegetarian thali to share.
The thai curry is very good, a thick curry with a good bite and not too creamy…
The vegetarian thali is also good, served with chapatis (that basically look like tortilla wraps), with two kinds of paneer, one version dry-roasted with a rub, and another with a tomato-ey curry, both quite good… and a pea and cauliflower, gravy-based curry on the side.
And lots of coffee, as it’s lunchtime and we’re already starting to flag. We eat up, have some more coffee, and then it’s back to exploring the city!
