Hi, So I finally have time to update my blog! I've pushed the ants in the kitchen aside, washed out the kettle for those ants that like a kamikaze ending and have made a cup of tea! A lot has happened over the past month so I'll try to be succinct. International Women's Day was great fun. Lucy and got a lot of help to get dressed from the ladies at work. To celebrate the day the men in the department were split into 4 teams and each team had to do something th...

Hey! So it's been another busy couple of weeks both in and out of work. Last weekend Lucy and I decided to go to the cinema. There was a new Bollywood movie out called Tanu Weds Manu, so we called up a couple of Indian friends and asked if they wanted to go. You'd have thought going to the cinema would be relatively straight forward - but like everything here it involved a bit of drama! We went over to a mall a little way out of town in a very smelly taxi (ser...

So I've been here nearly 2 weeks now! I can't believe it!! Work has been really busy, but I think I'm settling in ok. Its just completely different to the type of work I do at home - but its all good. Last weekend I spent Saturday shopping with Kathie (a Canadian secondee who has subsequently gone home, but might be coming back out here), the Indian landlady of the bed and breakfast she was staying at called Laika, and another guest of the B&B (a Singaporea...

Well - It's been an action packed few days! After an extremely busy couple of weeks at work and home I finally got packed up and flew out to Bangalore. The flight out here was fine (I watched 3 movies - none of which were particularly amazing), and I was pleased to find a driver waiting to pick me up at the airport. It was about 6am in the morning so it was still dark, but my first impressions of Bangalore were that it is much more developed than other Indian c...

Hi, I had a horrible night’s sleep in Bundi and woke up feeling rubbish! Unfortunately we had to catch a local train to our next destination – Bijaipur. We got on the train and woke a bloke up who was lying across the bench like seats and got him to sit up as the train was packed. The seats are made for 4 people, but some had over 6 people on them! As I wasn’t feeling great the confined space and the hard seats were not good so I decided to climb up into t...