A little more to the West as Calculus might have said.
I am off to Karachi for the Lit Fest and after that, to Lahore for two days. Of course, it's impossible to make the short hop from Bombay to Karachi in the civilised hour or so that it should take, so I will be jetlagged with a day-chewing couple of flights, but hey - I'm westward bound!
Unexpectedly, for me, I think I will blog as often as time permits. I won't be able to take my SLR because baggage rules about one bag are very strict and I really can't stuff a camera into my laptop bag. There will be another camera, though it's old and the images it produces are rather grainy but that can't be helped.
What has been interesting has been the reactions of people to the news in the last two days.
"Why are you doing this?!" one person said. "You'll never get a visa to the US again."
"Karachi? Oh! Oh!" said another friend. The second oh was both exclamatory and silent. I could tell.
Another misheard me and was puzzled. "What?" I asked, maybe a little aggressively. When she asked what I'd said and I repeated myself, she said, 'Oh, Karachi! I thought you said Karate."
One friend of my mother's has just been and back and she had much advice to give me. We've made a date to compare stories once I return. Another sounded wistful; she had tried so hard to visit her sister for a whole year and at one point it looked like the visa might come through. But then it didn't and her sister died.
Visas. Let's not talk about them.
Let's talk about PACKING!
(Actually, let's not. You lot know me and know it was and continues to be epic. One day, I will inaugurate a new genre of travel writing that is almost entirely told via the packing for it.)
Maybe let's talk about shopping instead? Or things I absolutely must do and see in both these cities?
Suggestions, please!
I am off to Karachi for the Lit Fest and after that, to Lahore for two days. Of course, it's impossible to make the short hop from Bombay to Karachi in the civilised hour or so that it should take, so I will be jetlagged with a day-chewing couple of flights, but hey - I'm westward bound!
Unexpectedly, for me, I think I will blog as often as time permits. I won't be able to take my SLR because baggage rules about one bag are very strict and I really can't stuff a camera into my laptop bag. There will be another camera, though it's old and the images it produces are rather grainy but that can't be helped.
What has been interesting has been the reactions of people to the news in the last two days.
"Why are you doing this?!" one person said. "You'll never get a visa to the US again."
"Karachi? Oh! Oh!" said another friend. The second oh was both exclamatory and silent. I could tell.
Another misheard me and was puzzled. "What?" I asked, maybe a little aggressively. When she asked what I'd said and I repeated myself, she said, 'Oh, Karachi! I thought you said Karate."
One friend of my mother's has just been and back and she had much advice to give me. We've made a date to compare stories once I return. Another sounded wistful; she had tried so hard to visit her sister for a whole year and at one point it looked like the visa might come through. But then it didn't and her sister died.
Visas. Let's not talk about them.
Let's talk about PACKING!
(Actually, let's not. You lot know me and know it was and continues to be epic. One day, I will inaugurate a new genre of travel writing that is almost entirely told via the packing for it.)
Maybe let's talk about shopping instead? Or things I absolutely must do and see in both these cities?
Suggestions, please!
2 comments:
Jealous. Very jealous. And that's because my head's filled with images of those 2 cities from the 1940s.
So, do share pictures please!
"One day, I will inaugurate a new genre of travel writing that is almost entirely told via the packing for it"
You really, muchly, and totally should. I would even go out to a store and buy it new.
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