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Here in UK they call any Indian masala based item as curry 🙂 and just like how in blr we guys generally go out to have pizza for a treat, here they go to have “a curry” … its seriously that popular!

I saw this one on one of the coastal walks in the southern tips of the UK last year… a very beautiful army tank…

Maybe a decade ago, it wouldve been my worst nightmare. Exploring a closed deep tunnel deep into the very womb of the Earth… the prospect of claustrophobia or even worse, just getting stuck without being able to move forward or backward, wouldnt have seemed very endearing. Well, to begin at the beginning…

Later on at lower altitudes, the weather was relatively clearer. Some Welsh sheep… Saturday evening we returned, and Sunday morning, we started out again on another trail. The day was sunny! There were so many colors! Yellow, green, dark green, grey, brown, blue, red!! Destination: the peak beyond this one… A lake just melting… Another […]

“Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountains and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.” – Art of Peace, Morihei Ueshiba Well I didnt actually seclude myself; was with around 15 other people… 🙂 They were all experienced walkers having done this for the past 5 […]

Been attending Aikido classes in Bristol every (almost) Thursday 7 PM with Tony Davis, I had a great time on Sunday when it was a full day Aikido session. Truly a day that I will never forget! And this morning I had plenty of aches in my body but unfortunately not so much that I […]

Here’s double trouble… two ghosts of me!

Visited Cardiff… a very pleasant small city with a big bay. I just sat there on a bench on the dock and watched the world going by. An old man come up to me pushing a bicycle, and it looked like he wanted to say something but was hesitant to do so. Finally he asked […]

I settled down in my apartment. If I were to imagine a perfect place to stay in, it would be quite identical to this one. I was in the top (first) floor, and my house has really huge windows overlooking a lawn below. There was plenty of light and ventilation, and a lot of greenery […]

————————————————– This is from my diary, the entries are just as I later remembered how things happened… and I don’t think even I can stand by now for everything I thought/said/did then 🙂 _________________________________________ 2-July-2003 Bristol, UK ———– I went to a public toilet near the city center the other day. It was in the […]