“So how did I end up on top of an elephant?” This was a very reasonable question that Q posed to us the…

Last night was the final night of celebration for the Ganesh festival. The weather has been comparatively beautiful for the last week or so…

Tomorrow is the start of Ganesh Chaturthi, the Hindu festival devoted to the elephant headed deity Ganesha.  While celebrated across India, it is…

Mumbai is a big city,  and to be honest, I am still trying to find its charm. I suspect it is lurking under…

I think that there is a bit of a misconception that diplomats have a pretty easy life, flitting about from one cocktail party…

Depending where you are in India the monsoon season generally lasts from mid-June until the end of September, so we have landed pretty squarely in the…

What happens when you sit next to a henna artist at church who likes to doodle while she listens to the talks…

Finally arrived in Mumbai at 11am yesterday (Friday). The flight was really good in the sense that the service was excellent, the seats…

I’m afraid that our kids will never want to fly again since it is 100% sure that the next time they fly it…

The overnight flight to London was smooth, but all in all much shorter than expected. Only 6 hours or so from Ottawa, once…