This will be an abbreviated listing of all we did on Sunday!
Service at Christ Church, Library Bazaar, at 11:30 [see my entry from 2013]. Attendance was less than usual because of special Thanksgiving Service going on at Union Church. Small group of regular folks plus young adults from South India and the NE (Assam area) students from the Administrative Academy and the Border Patrol training academy.
Lunch at the Rice Bowl. This is a Tibetan restaurant right near Hamer's and the old Rialto Cinema area. They have such good food and very generous portions. Cate and I shared a big bowl of chicken-noodle thukpa, a plate of steamed momos, a fried rice dish, and a chicken-chili dish.
Shopping. We walked the length of Library and Kulri Bazaars. In one of the two bigger Kashmiri stores I (ahem) bought some totally unnecessary but beautiful things, as did Cate. Poked around in Batas Shoes and other shoe shops, provision stores, Chemists, touristy souvenir stores. Ended up at Cambridge Book Store where I was very judicious and only bought 2 of the books on my list to buy (I Alan Sealy's Small Wild Goose Pagoda and the Gantzer's Lynsdale Raj) and 1 other book.
Evening event. We made our way back to Library Bazaar and then up to the Savoy Hotel, where we rested a bit and had a cup of tea.
We then attended a lecture by an American architect on the Chateau Kapurthala, which is just up the hill a bit from the Savoy. This American woman (whose name I didn't catch and I haven't so far been able to find online) had been hired by the Kapurthala family as a consultant for their many late 19th century & early 20th century buildings. There were about 100 people at the lecture - a mix of representatives from Mussoorie Old Families, architects, and journalists. The illustrated lecture was very interesting, and is one of a series being organized by Ms. Surbhi Agarwal, manager of the Mussoorie Heritage Centre, a small museum right behind the [no longer extant] Clocktower.
Service at Christ Church, Library Bazaar, at 11:30 [see my entry from 2013]. Attendance was less than usual because of special Thanksgiving Service going on at Union Church. Small group of regular folks plus young adults from South India and the NE (Assam area) students from the Administrative Academy and the Border Patrol training academy.
Lunch at the Rice Bowl. This is a Tibetan restaurant right near Hamer's and the old Rialto Cinema area. They have such good food and very generous portions. Cate and I shared a big bowl of chicken-noodle thukpa, a plate of steamed momos, a fried rice dish, and a chicken-chili dish.
Shopping. We walked the length of Library and Kulri Bazaars. In one of the two bigger Kashmiri stores I (ahem) bought some totally unnecessary but beautiful things, as did Cate. Poked around in Batas Shoes and other shoe shops, provision stores, Chemists, touristy souvenir stores. Ended up at Cambridge Book Store where I was very judicious and only bought 2 of the books on my list to buy (I Alan Sealy's Small Wild Goose Pagoda and the Gantzer's Lynsdale Raj) and 1 other book.
Evening event. We made our way back to Library Bazaar and then up to the Savoy Hotel, where we rested a bit and had a cup of tea.
