Peacocks, Papayas and Pondicherry.......

Home again, London for now but not for too long.......

I apologize for the haphazard way I have laid out these pictures, but with my zero skills I'm glad I even managed to post them :-)

Ah yes, I forgot my camera in India so the rest of the pictures, of Pune and Mumbai, will be posted when I get back there in a couple of weeks.........

Daily breakfast in Auroville with friends, a fruit salad in a gorgeous setting.....

Being in Auroville and Pondicherry felt like I had come home - I so love this place :-) 

MatriMandir - The temple of the universal Mother......

It is the center of Auroville, not only geographically but also energetically.....

Auroville is a unique one of its kind experiment in Human Unity.....still in the making, far from its ideal goals, and yet, so amazing that it exists and it works.........

Lunch at a restaurant with a salad bar buffet - it was very very good......watermelon, papayas, grated carrots, cherry tomatoes, iceberg, green and red peppers, broccoli, sunflower seeds and almond flakes.....olive oil and lemon juice for dressing......

To take pictures of these beautiful peacocks, one has to remain so still, so as to disappear.....it is like a meditation, the mind goes silent simply watching them......

Streets of Pondicherry, with the cows settled in for the afternoon, relaxed and completely at home......

Three wheelers, autorickshaws - zip around the streets of all Indian towns and cities - on Indian roads, it is quite a rollercoaster ride!!

I made raw dinner for my friends in Auroville - zucchini tagliatelli with coriander and walnut pesto, a raw pizza with a red pepper and tahini sauce, sprinkled with pumpkin seeds - for desert, I made a simple banana and spinach pudding, which went down like a dream :-)

Lunch alone at a sea-side Pondy restaurant - Salad with iceberg, tomatoes, apple slices, cucumber slices, lemon and - parmesan shavings, that I didn't eat - and a carrot and celery juice.....perfect......

It is freezing here and after the hot sunny indian weather, this feels like the arctic zone! I feel a little fragile and a lot more sensitive to this cold......well, its only for a few days and then I'm off again :-)

I'll post again very soon, I have so much to share......

And I definitely want to spend some time catching up on the other blogs......

Have a wonderful Easter Weekend, 

xxx