Some catch-up notes...

So which one is the monkey?....

A couple of weekends ago we headed out towards Mysore to the Big Banyan Tree. Not surprisingly when we arrived we found a ...big ...banyan tree...

It's about 400 years old and has a strange root system that means it looks more like dozens of smaller trees somehow grouped together. It doesn't have one main central trunk as such but it's still impressive; any big old tree covering about 4 acres still gets my vote as worth seeing.

Yep - that's all one tree, connected through it's root system

The outing also took us just out of town with a great friend of ours visiting from Dubai - sadly her hubby was busy working, but it was great to have a visitor already and catch up.

Safety first.... at least for the driver. This little family outing was kind enough to let me get a snap, in fact quite keen. I think I might have just developed a theme for a coffee table collection....

The shot below is from our weekend to Trivandrum...there were a few more I wanted to include but I'm not exactly a wizard on formatting this thing yet, so they'll have to wait for next time.

Fishing the way they've all always done...with all the time in the world.
Despite the humidity and heat, there is always something very relaxing about the beach/coast/ocean - I was surprised to realise that we actually quite miss this sort of thing living in land-locked Bangalore.



Other news... We're still in our serviced apartment and waiting to move out - hopefully in the next couple of weeks still, but this seems to be happening very much in it's own time. We've upgraded our car and driver (they are generally a package) to get something a little bigger - the car, not the driver. It's a bit more comfortable and as a bonus the new driver also speaks significantly better English.

Clarky is very much out and about - as a lady of leisure she's taken up yoga and pilates, some charity work teaching slum kids and also working in a hospice, and of course keeping some spare time for a busy expat wives social scene. Poor thing. Her new name is now 'Housewife' as that's what it officially says on her visa - classic!

B'lore tally:

Drivers - 1

Visitors - 1

Out of town trips - 2