Bought my tickets after some initial difficulty (every place I originally looked was “SOLD OUT” to my great surprise), but found a new airline to travel with (new for me) and will be arriving back “home” on October 24th!! And then of course the regular almost daily posts and photos will begin here once again.
Looking forward to “seeing” you all again in just 6 months.
Namaste
Jane
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Reblogged from The Banks Blend:
Photo credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spices_in_an_Indian_market.jpg
Indian food is an amazing culinary experience. The blending of spices, aroma and colors are enough to send your palette screaming for more while your stomach is telling you to stop immediately or there will be consequences. After consuming my favorite dishes this afternoon I felt the need to share these tidbits of insight about how Indian food can teach us to realize the most basic and tackle the most complex things in life with the lift of a fork.
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Oh my!! I’ve been awarded this lovely Award by Peri at Peri’s Spice Handle. I am completely surprised, but humbled and greatly honoured as well. If you have not as yet visited her blog, and you have a love affair similar to my own with India Cuisine, I urge you to rush over as soon as possible. Her blog is designed to ” add Indian-inspired flavors to everyday favorites and tweak Indian classics for a more global appeal’. And she does a superb job of this. Her recipes are always delicious to eat, but also exact in measure and instructions which makes them a joy to try out.
Peri honored my blog with the following comment which I would like to share with you: “Namaste Jane:) Your site and posts on India thrill my soul. I visited India vicariously thru you this year! Thank you for …being such a great ambassador for India” Couldn’t ask for more, as this is one of the reasons I continue to write my India Journal.
I have taken a kind of retreat from blogging the past couple of months, and plan to continue this for some time now, and normally would not be accepting this award. But there is one blog which I feel I MUST present it to and so below please find a link to the rules which govern this award.
)Here is the link to the Blog of the Year 2012 “rule page”:
Rules for the Blog of the Year Award
…and my congratulations to YOU Nicole. I know I am not the first to award this to you, but if anyone deserves the full six, it is most certainly you.
with love light and JOY
Jane
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The qualification for daring to write such a blog is that we recently spent three weeks travelling through Southern India on dirty, sardine packed buses, on trains that were so unclean that even the flies got off at each stop, to cafes without adequate sanitation such as running water from the one tap in the loo with no paper with the one toilet which might flush if your luck was in.
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Our trip was blessed from the start because, although unbeknown to us at the time, we were met in the Bangalore arrivals hall by Lewis Hamilton very cleverly disguised as an Indian taxi driver.
If you only do one thing on your travels to India, make sure that you pre book a taxi to greet you with a sign with your name emblazoned upon it on arrival, otherwise the very first thing you will be subjected to the second you step through those airport doors is 3500 taxi drivers who all want you in their cab and all have a hotel that you must stay in, whether you’ve booked one ahead or not.
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It can be very daunting coming back to "reality" after spending an extended period of time in India. But to my surprise, it is even harder coming back to Earth after a short trip (I was only there 6 weeks this year instead of my usual 3-6 months).
So I made an effort to get out and about as soon as possible and had a lovely couple of days just a week after coming home.
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I have been home from India for 3 weeks now and finally beginning to settle back into life's daily routine. There have been significant life changes since arriving home, which I will be writing about shortly, but to help ease my return to the reality here at home, I always feel the need to get back to Nature-something I live with daily, each moment, during my sojourns in India.
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I am a former American, living in Israel for the past 38 years. Mother of 6, grandmother of 13 ,healer, Reiki Master, Israeli folkdance enthusiast, enjoying the wonder, surprise and blessing of every step of the wonderful journey called "Life".I have been living in India, Rishikesh to be exact, every year for the past 5 years - several months of each year - and it is indeed another part of my amazing journey.
