I went, I saw, I ate...

I am aware I have a common food theme. This will be the last for a while. Promise.

Looking through my travelling photos I was swiftly reminded of my Indian travels. Not only did I fall in Love with India as a country, I feel into a deep love affair with the food.

I wasn't Indian food aficionados before I visited India, possibly due to New Years Incident. One New Years a few friends and myself participated in an Indian 'cook off' prior to 20 others joined for a rather large supper party.I proceeded to concoct THE strongest curry blowing our brains out with the hottest food I’d ever encountered.

I recall wincing and sweating...and what followed for us all did mean henceforth, I “didn’t like Indian food.”

Nearly three weeks in Mumbai and Goa produced good eats along with stunning photos.

Everything about India was overload – colours, sounds, flavours. Diesel, ammonia, incense, smog, curry spice and refuse mating with one another to create something that is genetically India.

It seems ridiculous that I would love a country that is so dirty, crowded, hot and teeming with disease, but I love it despite and because of those things. Walking down dirt roads in the midst of a cornucopia of aluminum, mud, stone, woven baskets and a smattering of livestock to the strangest symphony of life-threatening traffic you have ever seen, you could happen upon anything and it would be a normalcy to Indians when to you it's the most unforgettable thing happened in your whole life!

For me that is the allure, the intoxicantcy, the joy and the sorrow mingled of the beautiful India. I deeply understand why the former Queen of England once called India the Jewel of her Crown.

Beneath the poverty and all of India that is foul and disgusting there is a brooding of the potential to be the most majestic destination in all the earth. India is teeming with disease but it is also teeming with resources. Woven fabric of brilliant colours, marble, spices, and where it is unspoiled, gorgeous jungles as a backyard.

I think I semi fell in love....