FIRST Landing into India!
- livelaughlovefigs
- Feb 23, 2015
- 3 min read
I thought about what the Best Blog's are...and they are usually tips.. SO..., lets start with landing into India! Very easy airports, Extremly clean, and did I mention, Spectacularly gorgeous? Mumbai airport was like walking into an art museaum...maybe because it was designed by an Italian!
Obviously, I didnt come here on holiday, so I brought pretty much my entire wardrobe..and my friends all know, Im the light packers. When I travel, its one suitcase with a dress, pair of paints, a couple tops, and one pair of extra sandles/heels, INSIDE of another totally empty suitcase. But this time, I had two rubbermaid containers and 3 suitcases lol. I love to use Space Saver Vacume bags, one of the best inventions ever...especially when you bring your king size down comforter. AND am I glad I did! Because who wants a wooly blanket on you at night? I want something cool, fluffy, and light...oh and white..to make sure no spiders are trying to nest on me!
Airports definetly make you a sweaty mess, wearing your layers of comfort for the two 9 hour plane rides. I flew from Seattle to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Mumbai, and Mumbai into Goa. Always have your passport in your pocket/I put mine in my bra, so I can grab it easy haha. Customs of course wanted to ask me what I had, if I was selling things, obviously I was not, but even if you plan to, NO. I just tell a little story about how I vacume sealed all of my clothes into plastic bags, and they are welcome to open it, and instantly, "no, no, you go thru!" I always get lucky however, and neve have to put my items through the security scanners. Thank goodness, because this stuff was heavy!
When I reached Goa, super simple, small airport, go out of the customs and walk to the very far left to catch a pre-paid taxi. It cost me 900 rupee ($14) to get a ride to my rental house that took an hour to get there. Traffic was not too bad, its just very windy and youre holding on to the "o-shit handle" the whole time.
There I prob saw my very first dead person. This 58 year old white man, was on the side of the road with his scooter and was standing but leaned with his head cracked wide open, resting on the handle bars. His entire front head covered in blood, no idea how he was positioned like that, but he was not a small man, but it really creeped me out that no one had stopped! I told the taxi driver, but a little whiles farther, two indian men were standing out of their car down the road from him, so maybe THEY had clipped him! I dont know....With jet leg, I really did not want to have to see something like that..
Got to the house and the housekeeper, very kind, but yes, slightly annoying...did not understand that I just arrived from 30 hours of traveling... no english and would not listen to what I needed, even when his son translated to him: PHONE, INTERNET!!! Here, I find out...for 3 days with no access to tell my family that I had made it saefly..here there was a USB port wifi! I finally spoke to the landlady on his cell and she tells me! Really??? It also took him forever to take me to the store to hook up my cell service - super easy! I will post this in a new blog post.
Went to the market, bought an orange, 2 pomegrantes, and a bundle of dark purple grapes for 50 cents! The pomegrantes are beyond delicious!! I eat those almost every day! The grapes are almost like European grapes, but not quite, they dont taste/or smell like wine, how Italian grapes do.
I tried to sleep and was so jet legged for 3 days straight, where literally EVERYTHING spun around me. I felt like I had been on a cruise ship, you know when you are on any boat for that matter, you get onto land and everything is still rocking? Well thats how flying to India feels. I never felt this way flying to Peru, which is the longest journey I ever did from Alaska. But this one really shocked my system and Im glad to have it over so I can enjoy the town!
Matteograssi was the Italian designer chosen to do the Architecture and Interior Design of the Mumbai/Bomaby Airport. Now I know why I loved it so much! Enjoy the pictures ~ from Google images (my camera phone took very grainy).
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