Sunday, August 26, 2007

Difficulties

The apartments are in the middle of nowhere .
There are no stores of any kind within reach without using our driver on the way to-from work. I just found a good store "big-bazaar" down the road from work that thankfully I can get what I want at lunch time but struggle to find good food.
It is extremely hard to find: safe vegetables, there is no milk (only UHT), no frozen foods or fresh meat, no eggs.
I have to live off: cereal, bread (not very fresh), yoghurt, meals-ready-to-eat, pasta and sauce, two minute noodles and juice. Thankfully it is all cheap, a shop-load normally costs me about $5-6
The road out of our complex is intraversable by foot within 48 hours of rain and its been raining lately. Public transport is difficult to take from the city and cabs dont like coming out this far. Auto-rikshas will refuse to come here as well.
BTW the big-bazaar has a sub-store called "Loot Mart". Strange invitation if you ask me.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Cam!

Sorry to hear about the problems. i know from experience that it really makes doing your job a lot harder when you don't even have a good breakfast, dinner etc to look forward to.

make sure to berate the management about your accomodation when you get back ;-)

Bruce