by Carmen G. Farrell | Aug 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
there’s our captain greeting the car ahead of us. 5:40am The BC Ferries tagline, “Welcome Aboard” has never been so fitting. I never thought these words would cross my lips about a government-run monopoly. “I’m impressed”. It really rubs against my...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Apr 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
men in Delhi Even though India is in my rear-view mirror as I am now immersed back into my west-coast Canadian routines, I find it is on my mind every day. Have you noticed how you get asked, or you ask yourself, “what were the highlights?” of recent...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Apr 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
How incredibly stupid. The pink scarf’s “esteemed” standing is now in serious jeopardy. But I am getting ahead of myself. Our last stop on this fast-paced vacation is to get-up-at-3:30am to leave Mussoorie and catch our 7:20 flight to Varanasi in...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Apr 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
For a completely different scene, we went to one of the hill stations in northern India in the part of India that used to be part of Tibet, 7,500 feet up the foothills of the Himalayas. Specifically, a town called Mussoorie, where the Dalai Lama first fled in 1959...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
So the patterns on my scarf are Sanskrit, I learned from my sister-in-law. And apparently my scarf has “come home”. A guide told me the writing was about one of the three “main” gods in the Hindu religion Shiva the destroyer…as in the destroyer of bad things. If...
