Wow, our trip has ended and we have been back home for over a month.  Re-entry was ameliorated by a lovely three week trip to Europe.  Most of you know my sister Melinda and her family live in Switzerland.  The girls and I  left Chennai on March 24, had a last meal of chapati and Dal in Mumbai, and made our way to Amsterdam.  I will never forget how  a simple, airport supermarket meal of fresh milk, three different cheeses, French bread, Dutch cookies, plums, and salami, eaten in  an airport lounge could completely, thoroughly and sublimely thrill Isabel and Clio: it was an epic meal, a meal to remember for the girls who struggled for six months with spice.

We landed up in Geneva, to the warm and welcome embrace (and daffodils) of Melinda, Michael, Marina, Leo and Action Man.  We decompressed on milk fat, beautiful bread, the Swiss country side and spring.  And then, we headed to Corsica: Seven people, gear for a week and a Volvo station wagon.   We sat, too cramped to move and watched the wonder that is Europe pass by our windows.  We saw the Swiss Alps, the French Alps, the Italian Alps.  We ate superb food at a slow food restaurant in Bra, Italy.  (Thank you Michael, that Panna Cotta may never be equaled.)  

Corsica:  I could live there.  A vista that includes the Mediterranean and snow capped mountains is something too wonderful to forget.  And sadly, I fell in love with Columba beer.  I may have to return to Corsica one day.....

Thank you Melinda and Michael for that wonderful three weeks!