Travelling Mum

Mum came through Japan in February enroute back to Oz for a few weeks to tidy up a few family and personal items, get another visa and head back to India.  She looked tiny and was probably too thin but she was as bright as a button and ready to go back as soon as … Continue reading »

A picture of Gulmarg in Kashmir.  Have just returned and saw the best and worst of it.  Gulmarg has the highest golf course on the world and the Club is almost ‘Raj’. I miss our Sunday talks. At present more than ever for I would dearly love to live here and need to talk it … Continue reading »

Have left all my (email) addresses at home and cannot bring them up on the computer although they are on the one at home. So will you please let the mob know.  I will soon start my epistles but that takes time. The weather is warm. Still cool at night.  Similar to Tokyo on those … Continue reading »

The letters from Travelling Mum have been a little quiet.  The reason for this is that Mum went back to Australia in October last year as her visa had expired as she needed to address some family & health issues. The good news (?) is that she called through Tokyo recently enroute to another sojourn … Continue reading »

My last day at Mount View. I move into H****’s unit tomorrow.  There are things I will miss here.  I have got to know some of the other residents and staff – a mix of Indian and Tibetan and they have included me in the chiacking that goes on, from floor to floor and balcony … Continue reading »

The next chapter – Dharamsala has had some changes since my last visit, and not just the weather.  The monsoons can start any time now, and most evenings about sunset, though it is fine and sunny, the thunder starts.  It is quite eerie – it sounds like the mountains are on the march – quite … Continue reading »

Next chapter, then I should be up to date.  Went to Kashmir for just over 2 weeks: Map of Kashmir Nazu and I went with friend with car (I cannot remember his name.  I have to see things written, which is rather hard with these people).  We stayed at his home in the countryside an … Continue reading »

Hello again.  Every time I think I have told you all, I think of more things I want to share.  Still it is easier this way.  Maybe when I get ‘au fait’ with the computers – (or get my laptop), it will be easier still. It is still very hot, and my snowy mountain I … Continue reading »

A picture of Gulmarg in Kashmir.  Have just returned and saw the best and worst of it.  Gulmarg has the highest golf course on the world and the Club is almost ‘Raj’. I miss our Sunday talks. At present more than ever for I would dearly love to live here and need to talk it … Continue reading »

My Mother was a child of the depression being born in Australia in 1930.  Her father was a surveyor and the family often travelled with him.  She can remember a time before electric refrigerators, living in tents with dirt floors in the back blocks of Queensland as she grew up.  She became a nurse at … Continue reading »