Day 3: Mumbai docks/food walk This morning we met Freni, our driver Proshotam and left for the Sassoon Dock. As it is directly adjacent to a military installation, we were not allowed to take any pictures. The boats had emptied their load of fish, shrimp and eel hours earlier. The […]
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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 […]
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 […]