Bangalore Monkey

So today at noon I'll be answering questions about India over at Budget Travel . It would be foolish to pretend that I'm knowledgeab...

Hey, so I'll continue putting random India stuff up here occasionally, but head to the main blog for more current updates.

C215 - Indian Goat , originally uploaded by C215 . Hey, I'm really late with this, but remember that funny goat from long ago...

The entertaining "Firang Squirrel" is about the be leaving India as well. Her post about it (from earlier this month) is a good r...

And now we're in New York after a nicely uneventful flight on British Airways. I finally got to see Darjeeling Limited and would someti...

Another packing toughie, like yesterday's nativity scene, this was a Pottery Town purchase. It's about 12", and the pottery is ...

Here's one of the things I'm struggling to pack up. A couple days before Christmas I walked to Pottery Town, an area near the Canton...

Unbelievably, our time in India is almost at an end. I know I've thought that twice before, just before we were heading back in July 200...

Flamingo Chenin Blanc 2005 380 rupees 14% Yet another wine we drank a while back. It was hard to be thrilled by it. It had a nice, sweet, h...

Sula Blush Zinfandel Rs. 395 12% alcohol As usual we drank this entry before we could take a picture, so I don't have any photographic e...

Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating it today. This kolam-like message was found in the Russell Market area today. Last night we had Chr...

Sula 410 rupees 11.5% alcohol Christmas and (even more to the point) New Year's are right around the corner, and for some people that me...

Sula 2007 395 rupees 12.5% This wine is semi-dry, which for secret Wine Expert reasons actually means "slightly sweet." I'm so...

Since it's almost the same as my last name, I loved the Rambo bar of Calcutta. I discouraged us from going in since it looked so grim, b...

Here's a short video Katherine shot with her camera. Behold the bats, who fly out of the trees in back of our apartment every night arou...

We already did this wine , but it found its way back into our house all the same. It seemed like a 5.5 last time, but maybe it's a littl...

All is gloom in Bangalore today. It's rainy, cold, and gusty. It looks like this: OK, that's really Minnesota from a couple weeks ag...

Seagram 465 rupees 13.5% alchohol I usually keep the empty bottles of wine we've drunk until their contents either get written up here o...

The Goat of Ghoom cracked us all up. How does he get his hair so curly? And why is he inside the basket? Ghoom is a town a few miles from Da...

We used to have this blog, see, where I'd post random pictures and go on and about Indian wine, goats, traffic, and other obsessions. No...