Saturday, 20 September 2014

Little India adventures



After a usual early start at 7:30 this morning, I have spent my day cleaning, doing laundry, straighten the flat, catching up on work, making a dent in one of my 30-Before-30 Top 100 novels and generally straighten out our lives a little bit. Nick slept through most of this – the boy does love to sleep.
            By midmorning he was up and about, and in an effort to do something a little bit different but that would not involve us having to head into the craziness of the city centre just yet we made our way down and through Little India to a cafĂ© / restaurant that serves really reasonable food in a fun, busy environment.
            In the next few weeks Little India will be turned into one giant light installation as they prepare to celebrate Diwali / Deepavali. They lights are up and over the roads (in the style of Oxford Street at Christmas time) so I am very excited to go and have a close look at that nearer the time.
            For now, they had closed off a couple of streets and had opened up new stalls and market to start getting the local communities excited about the celebrations. We only passed through quite quickly, but it was looking spectacular, and was a great little corner of the world for our casual lunch.
            By the time we got back to the flat it was nearly time to head out for the night, so after a quick change of clothes, we were ready for more racing cars! 

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