Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:06:52 -0500
Hello all fellow classmates...
During the week that's just past, spent two fruitful and delightful days in Arun's company in Wales (UK) - driving through and taking in the sights and sounds, cuisine too - around picturesque Tenby, Pembroke Castle in Pembrokeshire, and the awesome St David's Cathedral in UK's smallest ever township to be given the status of a 'city' - St David's in Wales; we spent a night in Tenby too...
Culminating with an awesome spread at Chand's table in Cardiff - shared with her, her hubby Arun, and their younger son Kabir (....now with them from Krakow/ Poland). Chand's culinary delicacies.... mixed fare: mostly Mangalorean, but with north-Indian too... Sanna with crunchy prawn curry, dosas with green chutney & breast-chicken in coconut curry, yummy dry-roasted chicken, spicy meat dish, baingan-bhartha & an aubergine in curry dish, etc etc etc. Plus a pulao rice dish with sweat-raisins...
Despite a sleepless night in pain troubled by kidney-stones, he graciously and generously (...but perhaps also foolishly) insisted on playing the perfect host (...keeping me in the dark initially) - driving over 300 miles in two days... just to give a perfect and enjoyable holiday.
Thank you Arun... !
And thank you Chand ( .... also for the fantastic meal) !!
And it was lovely meeting you, Kabir...
Sharing with you links to a few albums on my 'facebook' page with pictures I clicked on this trip....
Hopefully, you guys will enjoy them...
Warm regards to all...
Maxie
(from London)
