Chandigarh: The city Corbu built

So I have lastly made it to Corbusier's peaceful garden city. It is a wonderful relief of the intensity of Mumbai only hours before. (Think New York vs Savannah). I have been reunited with my old suitcase of clothes and my computer (so happy). I have been wearing the same pair of pants for 5 weeks now... Yesterday, we went to a salon and got pampered, which cost the equivalent of all of four US dollars...yes, the cost of that venti half-calf non-fat sugar free vanilla latte with extra foam that you get every morning. It is so crazy how cheap things are here, and yes most of the time, it really is "cheap", but I think of much they sell the same crap for in the US and it is mind boggling. That, and there is no effort to curb waste my any apparent means. The airlines pamper you with loads of plastic, even on our half-hour flight from Arangabad(sp?) to Mumbai.

We are preparing for our flight (swiss air is VERY restrictive on baggage from India, though you can easily bring three times as much if you are flying from the US or Canada....) I am hopefully going to have time to see more if the city that Corbu built, including the capitol complex and the architecture school. Photos will have to wait until I get settled in Rome, sorry folks. They are worth the wait, I assure you.

Cheers,
Jessica