First Night in Dehli

We’re staying with one of mum’s friend’s families. This is the thing about Indians – you can meet eating their food, for no other reason than the size of their hearts. This family in question is Kalpana’s, the older sister of Jaya, mum’s company administrator, who Ma’s only met twice before. We have dinner and meet the fam – Tanvi, the daughter just finishing A-levels (PUCs in India), Raj who’s at Uni doing engineering and the Dad who sells capital-scale biomass power equipment. Dinner, as per usual in a home like this is awesome. However, we don’t get to chat too much as we’re off in the morning to the quite frankly amazing Vaishno Devi Temple for our Darshan, or pilgrimage. We’ll be flying out to Jammu Kashmir at 11 in the morning.