On the road again...

Guess what, we're traveling again! Gareth's in the States and I'm in the UK. He's had meetings in Colorado Springs and then onto Nashville for a conference and more meetings. I am currently working in the World Vision UK office in Milton Keynes having first had a weekend in London staying with good mates Fi & Pete, meeting their baby Joshua, catching up with my friend Wendy and bumping into an old university friend at church on the Sunday, small world syndrome. We also have to renew our visas and passports while here.

Is lovely catching up with friends, old work mates in Milton Keynes and am staying with some other good friends Kate & Kenny who are very kindly giving me a home/bed while here and when G arrives on Thursday night. We then fly to Glasgow to see family and back to MK for a few days and wedding. Then Edinburgh for another wedding and down to York for more family and onto Heathrow to sleep our way back to India.

Also over the weekend I caught up with my friend Rach one of my bridesmaids. Some of our time was spent in the beautiful country around Godstone in Surrey, walking for a few hours in the sunshine, daffodils, bluebells etc. That's something that you miss - the change in seasons and UK in spring is gorgeous.

Coming back after a longer period of time and having made Hyderabad home, I can feel/see the differences a bit more and does feel a little strange at times, but of course is all familiar. Things like cost for example - a 45 min train journey in peak time cost me 40 pounds the other day, as opposed to paying $10 for a 12 hour overnight journey from Hyderabad to Chennai inc a bed and sleeping pack.

The huge choice in UK supermarkets is also obvious, you don't notice it when living here, but again you can see the differences. These are just obvious examples, however Indian logic, thinking or attitudes, social interaction are also different and again I can see that coming back this time.

But neither are right or wrong, though I think British Rail still overcharge, I guess it's just relevant to the culture and economy. We've hired a car and I (Andi) picked it up the other night and had to mentally force myself not to beep someone to move lanes, alert them to my overtaking or give a warning etc, as per daily driving in India, scary!

Is sometime hard to explain life for us in India when people ask what it's like, of course there are some things that people can identify with, but is also unique or almost hard to describe.

Anyway this is just a little update blog, as we'll try and write some more news when back in India.