Power breaks

After two blissful days, can't believe I'm back in office.

The best things in life are unplanned.

We got a three-day weekend and thought might as well make the best of it. When we left home we were not sure where we were heading, our first stop was Haridwar and thats all we knew. We eventually landed up in Mussorie after a stop at Haridwar and another at Rishikesh, wanted to go river rafting but it isn't the best time of the year to do it, so had to do with an awesome lunch at a German bakery just next to the Ganges.

We then started for Mussorie, I hate the winding roads, they make me sick and queasy. But we somehow got to Mussorie. The Delhi crowd was there with the Punjabi music blaring and I thought not all the nausea for this.

After checking about 10 hotels which were either full or not so exciting, we found a place called 'Padmini Nivas', which is a 160 year-old bungalow converted into a hotel. This hotel was far from the maddening crowd. The room overlooked a rose garden and I could see the next hill dotted with small huts and the glaring multitude of stars above, the air was chilly and the place just demanded sex.

more later...