Day 2: Mumbai Today we met our guide Freni and spent the day seeing the city and tracing the three Jewish communities in India and their presence in Mumbai. Freni is of Zoroastrian background, around my age and delightfully well-read. We connected with her immediately, finding her warm, honest and […]
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Day 1 India’s largest city, Mumbai has 13 million people. The trains alone carry six million people per day—equivalent to the entire population of Israel. Mumbai trains were built to hold 1700 passengers, but they often carry three times that number, leading to such notorious crowding that railways have given […]
Traveling alone: Dec 22nd There is always that apprehension about the decision to travel alone. I know I will have fleeting and wonderful encounters with strangers, or I’ll be contentedly on my own or I’ll be utterly lonely. I left LA alone this trip, knowing that I was meeting up with […]
The Knife—India Sitting in the Gulf Air Lounge for my 2nd layover, this time 4 hours in Bahrain. Almost got stuck here for longer. Had my luggage X-rayed and turns out I still had a knife in my duffel! Before leaving home, I grabbed an old camping duffel, just in case […]