Hairy Ginger and the Multiverse

Grocery shopping Bangalore style has a few tweaks compared to Chester-le-Street, but some similarities – maybe? We have now moved from our city centre hotel out into a serviced apartment (with a kitchen HUZZAH!) in the suburbs of Bangalore. The area (we are assured) is a sought after and hip place with lots going on – we will see. Following the transfer from the hotel and a brief but violent thunder storm I set forth seeking provisions for our first home made meal in India (if you don’t count Pringles and Cheese bought from the Gourmet shop by the cricket ground).

The following list covers encounters on the trip – try and spot which are similar to Chester – le – Street.

1. There was a cow grazing in the road as I walked out of the condos
2. Cars were axle deep in the puddles
3. There was a strong smell of sulphur as I crossed over the bridge over the ‘river’
4. I passed two gentlemen urinating in the street
5. I passed (but perhaps should have stopped at) a roadside stall frying crisps from all sorts of veg and fruit
6. I had to walk through an airport style metal detector to get into the supermarket
7. They tried to take my shopping bags off me as I went in so that I couldn’t use them for shopping
8. David Beckham beamed down on me as I walked back
9. The ginger was hairy and the lemons like golf balls
   

Perhaps I have landed in a world which is indeed one of the Chester le Streets but just in an alternate universe or just how it seems after a bad pie on a Friday night.

The consolation is that the food is very cheap here, but my sources tell me that turnips were reduced to only 3p at Tescos in Chester-le-Street last Friday, so not sure…