Shopping is quite the experience here in Bangalore. I must say that I don't go shopping as a relaxing pasttime. We did laugh on Saturday morning when we found this little cow doing a spot of window shopping. I have never seen a cow in the Commercial district but no one seemed to mind or think it out of the ordinary. Shopping is fruaght with danger from many sides. The footpaths come an dgo in no particular order so you must walk on the raod and avoid the cars and bikes and other pedestrians. Then you must watch where you place your feet as there is often excretment of one form or another along with water of dubious orgins. then you have to avoid the hawkers selling wooden things and dangly sparkly things or maps of India or just begging for money with there tiny little brown fingers grasping your arms. All this is while you are trying to look up and find a store that you need. We went into town on Saturday to get Christopher a suit tailor made. It was very straight forward and Christopher didn't complain too much. We go back next week to have final fitting and if it turns out well we might get him another made. There are little oasis from the chaos like the Florsheims shoe store and you can not help but wonder how these shops exist alongside such poverty and dirt. I now go shopping in this district, which is by far the most interesting and has the best presents for the home folk, by myself of a morning when Christopher can look after Daisy.
Below are the City Markets which I haven't ventured into. I think i will leave this area for the seasoned professionals. I will though get Raj to drive me thorugh and around again before we leave with my camera as the palce is alive with sights and sounds.
Mostly I do my shopping in big sterile shopping malls. At least here I only have to deal with people pinching Daisy's cheeks and taking photos of her. I don't buy much but it is nice to wander around and look at things. There is a cookie man where I have bought us a treat and a lovely coffee shop that I buy Christopehr's coffee beans from. There is a supermarket downstairs that has a bottle shop joined to it and I can buy kingfisher or cobra beer here. Bottle shops are few and far between here in Bangalore. I did buy a lovely pair of jeans from the Lee shop at a total bargain price so next week I will take Christopher to see if he likes any. Nearly everyday we find ourselves in the little grocery store downstairs of the apartments here and i adjust my cooking around what they can supply. They are pretty good here. There is another grocery store near to where Chris works that sells weetabix and other improted foods that we visit occasionally called Namdari's and last week I found that Spencer's now sells philly pastry and water crackers and brie cheese so I lashed out and we had a very fine Sunday of crackers and cheese followed by spinach phillo parcels! i am venturing out a bit more in food and including cheese in our diet as long as it is made from pasterised milk and is in date. I found long life cream on Saturday so we had pasta in a fresh tomato and cream sauce with parmesan bought from Spencers. It was absolutley delicious!! Today though we ar back to dal and rice, which speaking of, I must go and make lunch.
Shopping is quite the experience here in Bangalore. I must say that I don't go shopping as a relaxing pasttime. We did laugh on Saturday morning when we found this little cow doing a spot of window shopping. I have never seen a cow in the Commercial district but no one seemed to mind or think it out of the ordinary. Shopping is fruaght with danger from many sides. The footpaths come an dgo in no particular order so you must walk on the raod and avoid the cars and bikes and other pedestrians. Then you must watch where you place your feet as there is often excretment of one form or another along with water of dubious orgins. then you have to avoid the hawkers selling wooden things and dangly sparkly things or maps of India or just begging for money with there tiny little brown fingers grasping your arms. All this is while you are trying to look up and find a store that you need. We went into town on Saturday to get Christopher a suit tailor made. It was very straight forward and Christopher didn't complain too much. We go back next week to have final fitting and if it turns out well we might get him another made. There are little oasis from the chaos like the Florsheims shoe store and you can not help but wonder how these shops exist alongside such poverty and dirt. I now go shopping in this district, which is by far the most interesting and has the best presents for the home folk, by myself of a morning when Christopher can look after Daisy.
Below are the City Markets which I haven't ventured into. I think i will leave this area for the seasoned professionals. I will though get Raj to drive me thorugh and around again before we leave with my camera as the palce is alive with sights and sounds.
Mostly I do my shopping in big sterile shopping malls. At least here I only have to deal with people pinching Daisy's cheeks and taking photos of her. I don't buy much but it is nice to wander around and look at things. There is a cookie man where I have bought us a treat and a lovely coffee shop that I buy Christopehr's coffee beans from. There is a supermarket downstairs that has a bottle shop joined to it and I can buy kingfisher or cobra beer here. Bottle shops are few and far between here in Bangalore. I did buy a lovely pair of jeans from the Lee shop at a total bargain price so next week I will take Christopher to see if he likes any. Nearly everyday we find ourselves in the little grocery store downstairs of the apartments here and i adjust my cooking around what they can supply. They are pretty good here. There is another grocery store near to where Chris works that sells weetabix and other improted foods that we visit occasionally called Namdari's and last week I found that Spencer's now sells philly pastry and water crackers and brie cheese so I lashed out and we had a very fine Sunday of crackers and cheese followed by spinach phillo parcels! i am venturing out a bit more in food and including cheese in our diet as long as it is made from pasterised milk and is in date. I found long life cream on Saturday so we had pasta in a fresh tomato and cream sauce with parmesan bought from Spencers. It was absolutley delicious!! Today though we ar back to dal and rice, which speaking of, I must go and make lunch.
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