Three weeks in India -- Day Eight
It's Monday morning, about 7:45 AM. Hope everyone remembered to turn the clocks back over the weekend. I'm now 10.5 hours ahead of EST -- for the time zone impaired just add 1.5 hours to whatever time I note, then swap AM for PM, to translate the times. So it's 9:15 PM back east (or is that forward, west?).
It rained here again yesterday, on and off, and sometimes quite hard. The cloud cover is quite different from what I'm used to however -- yes, it's mostly gray but it's not a uniform blanket. You can see all sorts of tall clouds towering amongst the generally gray sky, with small spots of blue occasionally peeking through. The hotel grounds are small and at one point during a break in the rain I took a walk around, grabbing this shot of the pool when the sun was shining.
Ten minutes later it started raining again.
It's back to the office today. The daily routine during the week goes something like this. We eat breakfast at the hotel starting around 8:00-8:15, and leave for the office at 8:45. If traffic is good we get there by 9, if not by 9:15. We work until 6:00 with an hour for lunch, then come back to the hotel after dark in even worse traffic. The restaurant we usually eat at begins serving around 7:30 but sometimes we don't sit down until 8:30 or later, which makes for a late meal. So during the week the most exciting thing we do is drive back and forth to the office through the city, which is an amazing patchwork of the new, the old, and the ugly, rich and poor living right next to each other in a way you just don't see in the US.
More on the new, old, etc. this week, I hope.