Will I ever go back?

 

439^TH DAY BACK FROM INDIA

“yes”

439 days since the 8^th January 2013 when I and my 2 sons arrived back home.

Harry in New York and Luke and I in New Zealand.

well the news is only a week old … we are all going back… I miss it… what can I say!

We all want to go again -except Stewart but we’ll talk him around.

We leave approximately the 20^th December 2014 for 3 weeks.

I cannot wait!!! We arrive at Kochi and go south that is all I know at this time.

Craig says “this time it is beaches and lying in the sun.”

I miss the differences and the food and the people. I miss that feeling of being far away from home.

I have found myself telling every Indian person I meet (with an Indian accent) “I went to India!”

Will I ever go back?

 

216^TH DAY BACK FROM INDIA

“yes”

Do you know …..I think about that trip and I imagine that if I went again I would handle it better. Occasionally I catch myself thinking what a beautiful place it would be to live. Am I crazy??! No- I think the residual feelings and thoughts are ……of colour ……and food …..and people who are gracious and sweet and gentle ….even if they live in hardship or squalor.  I think the time has come to start reliving the experience… Watch This Space.

 

 

 

Will I ever go back?

 

111^TH DAY BACK FROM INDIA

“No…but I will remember it fondly… there are other places I wish to visit and I have so little time so ‘No’.”

There are not many days that go past when I do not have a moment’s thought about that trip to India.

Today it seems a dream ago…a fairytale and a moment in someone else’s past.

Did I really go to the magical country with a thousand colours?

Well it is a memory after all. I now do not remember the horrid things… the smells… the heat …..

but I still remember the pollution.

I wish never to see New Zealand’s water ways filled with pollution foam and plastic bottles. I think that a country of so many people could easily make it a mission to clean the streams. And that is all I will say on that matter…. It is not my country and I do not know enough to make any further uneducated comments.

 

 

 

Will I ever go back?

 

25^TH DAY BACK FROM INDIA

“NO probably not”

MINUSES The fear that all countries of the world will become like this one

PLUSES The food, the hotel at Udaipur , Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The people are for the most part genuine and honest. They want to make a sale but they are honest in their endeavour

 

 

 

Will I ever go back?

 

6^TH DAY BACK FROM INDIA

“No…I don’t know….”

There were some fabulous things, places, food, hotels. So Mum is right- when she said “the bad fades!”

 

 

 

 

Will I ever go back?

 

5^TH DAY BACK FROM INDIA

“Nup.- No- Never!”

MINUSES Heat Filth, Pollution, Touts

PLUSES all of the above

 

 

 

Will I ever go back?

 

4^TH DAY BACK FROM INDIA

“No Never!!!”

Talking to my friend Don about the trip was interesting.

MINUSES Filthy Pollution, HOT!! Touts!!!

PLUSES Food- fabulous!! I understand Indian Food now and love it!