Champagne Lunches

Every now & then, on a Sunday, a group of us will go to one of the various five-star hotels that offers an all-you-can-eat & champagne lunch. Here's some photos of us from of the more recent lunches:

A house full of furniture

For those of you that have been asking....yes...we did get all our furniture. The last truckload of furniture (the one that was "seized" by the rabid unionists) turned up on the Monday (as was hinted by the furniture people).

The house now feels like a home as we've unpacked all the boxes. We only have about 3/4 of the cook books out on display & we need yet another bookcase for the rest of the books. This hasn't even taken into account all the books we'll be buying here & online.

We had our first dinner party last night with some of the folks we work with. It was a lovely evening with great food, lots of wine (as we are now members of the commissary & have access to lots of cheap wine) & great conversation until the wee hours.

The menu was:

spaghetti bolognese - enough to feed the entire embassy

oven roasted chicken with parma ham served with:
porcini oven-roasted potatoes (OMG !! They were so good !!)
perperonatta (stewed capsicum & onions)

Tiramisu

Just how much spice can one buy ??

Carrying on about our trip to old Delhi all those weeks ago: here's a photo of just how much spice we bought.

Recent Easter celebrations

For those of us in New Delhi for Easter, we were treated to a pig on a spit by some of the DFAT staff: yes....that wonderful, magical animal. It was yum !!

Some of the local cows

A photo of some of the local cows wandering the streets of Vasant Vihar

The great handiwork of the electricians in Delhi

I have mentioned in a previous post, the positively dodgy set up of the electricity pole around Delhi. Here's an example of one captured in old Delhi.

A view of the madness of old Delhi

I just got some more file photos back from our visit to the Red Fort all those weeks ago. It gives you a bit of the sense of the chaos there.