London

Dec 2005

Escape from Bangalore - I loved my time in India. Until of course I came back from Nepal, where things were a lot calmer and the locals do not put you up on a pedestal. Nepal reminded me that India was not 'normal', and being in the very early stages of pregnancy didn't help matters. All of a sudden the smells were totally repulsive and the daily necessary travel was extremely tiring, it was time to go. I had a friend make me some lovely chicken soup as I "wasn't feeling well" - sure when I told her later that we were pregnant, she said "of course you were!" Thanks Suzi. So we planned to move on, and Tele2 planned not to work from Bangalore anymore, so we were headed to Stockholm, head office of Tele2 where teh work would now be done. But before we got there we had a few things to organise, like visas etc. We went to Dublin to spend Christmas with some friends from Bangalore and then we headed to Stockholm, on boxing day. Chavvah came over, for a week I think, from Scotland, that was fun and bloody cold. Oh at this point it was very novel to want to go outside so we could put on our coats, gloves, beanies, scarves etc That is until the snow just didn't stop. It ended up being the coldest winter in 15 years.