Wet & Dry
Wet days
The monsoon is in full swing about now, when I arrived back in Mumbai it was torrential. This just about doubles the time it takes to get anywhere in the city. Evertyhing that was a ditch is now a pool, and that's quite a few pools. Construction sites are total disatsters of mud and half finished buildings. The flyover they're building on Ganeshkind has a 100yd ditch in the middle of the road ( where they were putting in support columns) ,it's now practically a river.
But here in Pune,it's not like you see on those nature shows where it's a heavy downpour for hours. Rather the rain just does'nt stop for 3 to 4 days. The whole week we've had maybe 4 hours where it wasn't precipitating in some form. It goes from humid to light drizzle almost constantly. Then every so often a ton of rain will fall, sometimes for as little as 5 minutes, but sometimesfor a full hour or two. No thunder or lightning either, which I guess means it's just one big storm.
It's kind of impossible to keep anything dry unless you close all your windows all the time, but it's still about 80 degrees , so you want to try to catch some breeze. Books don't react well to this much moisture in the air as the pages slowly ripple up, and cornflakes go soggy in the box (Note to self, get some tupperware) Still , it's way better than the brutal dryness of may.
Dry days
So on Friday I stopped into the local hotel bar, got some bar food and ordered a beer.
>> "Sorry sir it is dry day, no beer"
"Oh...Ok then just a coke"
>> "And whiskey?"
"I thought you said it was a dry day?"
>> "Yes no beer, you want mixer with coke?"
"Uh...yeah"
So they go and make the drink in the kitchen instead of at the bar (this is a bar)
And bring it out in kind of a covert fashion.
"So let me get this straight, you can serve whiskey but not beer?"
>> "No sir...but mixer is looking good"
I missed the opportunity for the more pithy answer which would of been 'it certainly is'. So I guess on 'dry days' they just dont want to sell you anything that looks like alchohol. In case the cops come in or something. Although even then from what I've seen the chances of the cops doing anything ,except maybe having a beer themselves, seems extremely small.
The monsoon is in full swing about now, when I arrived back in Mumbai it was torrential. This just about doubles the time it takes to get anywhere in the city. Evertyhing that was a ditch is now a pool, and that's quite a few pools. Construction sites are total disatsters of mud and half finished buildings. The flyover they're building on Ganeshkind has a 100yd ditch in the middle of the road ( where they were putting in support columns) ,it's now practically a river.
But here in Pune,it's not like you see on those nature shows where it's a heavy downpour for hours. Rather the rain just does'nt stop for 3 to 4 days. The whole week we've had maybe 4 hours where it wasn't precipitating in some form. It goes from humid to light drizzle almost constantly. Then every so often a ton of rain will fall, sometimes for as little as 5 minutes, but sometimesfor a full hour or two. No thunder or lightning either, which I guess means it's just one big storm.
It's kind of impossible to keep anything dry unless you close all your windows all the time, but it's still about 80 degrees , so you want to try to catch some breeze. Books don't react well to this much moisture in the air as the pages slowly ripple up, and cornflakes go soggy in the box (Note to self, get some tupperware) Still , it's way better than the brutal dryness of may.
Dry days
So on Friday I stopped into the local hotel bar, got some bar food and ordered a beer.
>> "Sorry sir it is dry day, no beer"
"Oh...Ok then just a coke"
>> "And whiskey?"
"I thought you said it was a dry day?"
>> "Yes no beer, you want mixer with coke?"
"Uh...yeah"
So they go and make the drink in the kitchen instead of at the bar (this is a bar)
And bring it out in kind of a covert fashion.
"So let me get this straight, you can serve whiskey but not beer?"
>> "No sir...but mixer is looking good"
I missed the opportunity for the more pithy answer which would of been 'it certainly is'. So I guess on 'dry days' they just dont want to sell you anything that looks like alchohol. In case the cops come in or something. Although even then from what I've seen the chances of the cops doing anything ,except maybe having a beer themselves, seems extremely small.
