Cuisines here are aplenty. There is everything ranging from Turkish to Indian to Spanish. Some of them are a bit obscure to find while some are really popular. Like Mexican restaurants. They are present on every street and every block and so far I think I have been to at least five to six different...
As promised in the previous post here is my trip report on Mammoth Caves and Smoky Mountains. Friday evening was a rushed one, with us deciding to pack as lightly as possible. Our friend from Canada, let me call him Aamir Khan because he resembles the actor a lot, reached our place around 5.30 am...
The big weekend is coming up tomorrow. Unlike our Indian Independence Day where military parades are held and only the old people watch it on TV, here there is excitement and a sense of patriotism not to dissimilar to China. People are excited to watch fireworks and of course they get three days off. As...
Spare time is indeed spare. I don’t know how time passes. Yet it’s goes slowly. Weekends, especially the last couple, have just flown by. Last weekend I went to visit the Baha’i Temple in the suburb of Linden. It was a lovely rain washed day with dark clouds but just enough warmth. The temple itself...
The weekend went by quite smoothly. K/G and I went to Devon Street on Saturday to buy all the Indian supplies like rotis and frozen curries. These are good when you don’t feel like cooking, which is half the time lol … We went to the well known Patel Brothers, which stocks anything and everything...
A Chicago bus. Notice the cycle racks in front (Image from The Bergen Network). So far most of my travelling here has been by bus. I have hardly used the train except to get to the office. But buses are convenient, its just that they are a bit slower than trains. Unlike buses in Bangalore,...
Ok am seriously convinced the weather here has Multiple Personality Disorder. Gone are sunny days and it’s rain again. Today morning it was around 9 degrees C. Probably I sound a bit too obsessed with the weather but then the changes are so erratic I can’t help wincing each time it suddenly changes from T-storms...
A busy weekend kept me from updating the blog. Brace for a long post… 🙂 Oh and please check the other posts, I have added a few photos.The last couple of days were heavenly with good sunshine and no chilly winds. Is summer here finally? On Thursday evening Shanghai and I went to the Art...
What does the word ‘summer’ bring to mind? Warm, fuzzy sunshine, long days, lemonade and vacations. Right? Wrong. In Chicago, summer is 13 degrees Celsius, chilly winds and a freezing lakeshore. But people still go swimming, cycling and walking around in shorts. I don’t know how. I generally have to wear a tee shirt and...
Finally, after a long weekend it was time to begin office. It reminded me that am here on work and not on vacation. Smile. Well, I had not slept particularly well the night before and I was really groggy but I had to wake up by 6. My office is on South La Salle Street,...
