Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Greetings from India,
The hot weather has now arrived, with temperatures of 42 C / 108 F - and this is not summer. The heat will climb to 45C / 113F and above. I wonder if I will be able to hold out until my departure on 21/June.
In the meantime I am continuing my work here [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
My routine is quite gentle. I awake in the morning at about 6am, and seem to be in a state of paralysis, and so I wait for about an hour until I can move. I then take a cup of hot water to kick start the bowel evacuation and digestive track. I now add a [...]
Posted in Sights, Traveling, ayurveda on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
In the mornings, I awake and go outside to see and feel the rising sun. The atmosphere is hazy and lazy with humidity as the world comes to life. The large chipmunk-like creatures, usually in pairs have such fun running all over the place. The birds are very interesting and so different from the West. [...]
Posted in Sights, Uncategorized, tagged movies on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Monday, Sonya from Croatia arranged a group of us to go to see the Indian epic movie, Jodhaa Akba, a 16 century tale of the last of the Moguls (Moslems) who occupied the Northern part of India for some time (longer than the British, then, the Moguls did not have to contend with Mahatma Ghandi). [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
My routine is quite gentle. I awake in the morning at about 6am, and seem to be in a state of paralysis, and so I wait for about an hour until I can move. I then take a cup of hot water to kick start the bowel evacuation and digestive track. I now add a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bathrooms on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
This is my second attempt with this newsletter; the previous letter was lost when I had written it and pressed the wrong button.
My good friend, Eric Tischler has created a blog, http://tonyaltman.wordpress.com which will carry the letter updates of my journey, with photos when I am able to download them. My intent is to post information that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ayrvedic, Faridabad on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, it is now about 4:30 in the afternoon, Tuesday, 26/Feb., and I am in a town called Faridabad, just South of New Delhi. I am at the Jiva Ayurvedic Institute & Clinic.
My flight was a dream. Eight hours of comfort and impeccable service. Dinner with a cloth napkin. This Indian Airline, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blog, india, travel, welcome on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I want to thank you all for visiting my new blog, which I intend to be posting to as much as possible once I am able during my trip to India this year. I will hopefully have lots of interesting things to write here, and I intend also to post some pictures of my adventures [...]
