East Wind and Flickr

We had dinner tonight with Christian and Anna, Lucy and Lorenz at a yummy Chinese food restaurant in Munich called Ost Wind- East Wind. Lorenz was a dinosaur this time and Lucy was just plain lovely. :-) What was super impressive was the fact that the two of them were able to simply switch between three languages during the course of the evening. They spoke Chinese or English with their mom, German with their dad, a mix of German and English with us, and Chinese with the waitresses. Quite often a conversation would start out in one language, and then end up in another a few sentences later. Mind boggling.

Meanwhile, we're getting ready now for the trip to India in earnest. Everything is booked, and now it is just time to get any shopping and cat planning, etc. out of the way before we leave. We leave a week from Friday, on May 16, and land in Delhi on May 17, early in the morning. I'm told that the temperature in Delhi is hovering at about 43 degrees...celcius. I am more than a little nervous about this. But...hey, we'll just bring towels and extra t-shirts (or Kurtas...) everywhere. We'll be in Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Leh and Shimla. I have decided NOT to take a laptop for this trip, which should be a new experience.. ;-) Instead, the new mobile phone with a really really great camera in it, comes with, as well as an Ipod Touch. All I'd really like to do is occasionally check email and post a few photos as we go. To do so...I set up a Flickr account and have automated it to accept photos directly from my mobile phone. So..Julie snaps photo, Julie clicks the "post to web" button, and voila, photo uploaded directly to my Flickr account for you to see.

As an experiment, I uploaded a couple photos from tonights evening out directly to the account. Works really well. Now I just need a flat data tarif with flat roaming in India ....well, I guess you can't have everything.

You can find my Flickr account HERE.

We'll be in India from May 17 to June 5. Will likely get a blog or two in before we leave. But for the trip, count on following the action (unless I report otherwise in the interim) from the Flickr address.