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Benefits of Moving from a Bangalore Service Apartment to a Furnished Prestige Rental Apartment

Tonight for the first time in close to a month I am chilling at home.  Not the place my heart still calls home back in Spain, but my new home in Bangalore.  And it feels great!

The past 36 hours have been a roller coaster ride to say the least.  I moved out of the hotel I had been staying at for over 3 weeks.  Spent close to four hours signing the lease on the new apartment and sealing that deal.  After that I embarked on the craziest road trip from Bangalore to Chennai and back in 14+ hours to FINALLY collect my two cats who flew in from Barcelona (I will blog about that road trip separately)…spending the first night in our new apartment in the backseat of a Suzuki instead.

The lovely view of the park that borders our building… the treetops that extend almost to our balcony are part of what sold me on this flat!!
But not tonight.  Tonight I am marveling once again at Indian efficiency.  Between 15:00 Tuesday and 14:00 Wednesday, I was moved into the flat, contracted my housekeeper, a guy came to setup my account for gas and the first tank and a new regulator was brought up.  Then a guy came to hook up SKY TV with the three English entertainment and movie packages (here it is Tata Sky, by the way, which I thought was funny).  And last but certainly not least, Airtel is in the process of setting up my Internet Wi-Fi home network, which will be ready within four days.  Lordy lordy!!!  Gotta love India!!  Without an appointment, all of this would have been impossible in Spain — and even then some of these items on the list would take weeks.  So India…I once again stand in awe and want to thank you for your warm welcome.  Tonight I am starting to feel like Bangalore really is my home.

Ahhhhh my closets are a dream 🙂

Okay, so now on to some fun stuff 🙂  In the 3.5 weeks that I have lived here, I have only gone out to eat lunch at a restaurant once.  Oddly, it is just not something that is done at my company.  Even the executive team either brings in their lunch or  orders a curry and some naan from the local shop around the corner and the guys who bring tea, etc will run out and pick it up for us.  Pretty cool system, to be honest with you.  Then we all eat on the rooftop together, where we have plates, utensils, a water cooler and sink, etc etc.  Well, I have never taken my lunch to work (okay, maybe a dozen times in 5 years??) and don’t see myself changing anytime soon.  Sooo….my lovely new housekeeper has agreed to cook each day and place it in Tupperware so that I can take my lunch to work with me each day instead of ordering it from the shop around the corner.

Today she made lunch as a “test” to make sure I liked it.  She’s going to do the shopping for us as well so she went out and picked up a bit of everything we needed in order to create yummy curries, came back, started cooking…. and made me the best home cooked lunch I can remember in ages!!  She also makes fresh naan, and was not happy to see I had bought packaged bread!!!  “No mam, no more naan from store.  It’s no good.”  Sounds great to me!!!  Thursday will be my first day taking my lunch to work, can’t wait!!

Saffie and Jolie are finally in India with me! Here they are in the car as we started our road trip journey back to Bangalore from Chennai.

After all the drama, the kitties are finally here and I couldn’t be happier.  It was hysterical watching them investigate every square inch of the new apartment but it appears that they are okay with their new home.  They are obviously a bit traumatized from the flights and 7 hour drive back from Chennai because they just want to be pet and are still insanely tired.  I wish my daughter was here but having the cats with me now and moving into the flat have made a huge difference in my new life.

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Dinner tonight was amazing, and my first night out in Bangalore with fabulous humans instead of my *also* fabulous laptop!! haha! Tandoor on MG Road was the spot.  This is an amazing Indian restaurant that is decorated to perfection, has a huge menu with lots of special dishes and … wait for it …. wine!  I tried several new Veg dishes that I really loved, and finished off the night with my hands-down TIP-TOP favorite dessert Goolab Jamoon 🙂  On a Wednesday night the place was packed, and the food was absolutely perfect.

XOXO from my new home… Bangalore!

© Angela Carson, Angela’s Adventures in Bangalore blog and photos, 2011

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Angela Carson

At 21 I left uni, jumped into my Jeep Wrangler, and drove from my native California to live an adventure in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I've explored 37 countries on 4 continents, residing in 8 of them (currently Indonesia's Riau Islands is my home). I even have a private pilot's license and was shot at once by bandits!

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  1. PencilGirl 12/05/2011

    Wow!! Congratulations on moving into your new home!! 😀 😀
    Saffie and Jolie look adorable.. My cat, Gundu Mani, is currently checking them out.. 😛
    PS: You’re beginning to sound quite Indian.. Tip-Top, huh? 😀 😀

    1. angela_carson 13/05/2011

      Thanks Ms PencilGirl 🙂 The cats are settled and i feel “home” finally. Now I can stop having my mind in a million directions and really concentrate on my job which will be fun 🙂

      Tell Gundu Mani they are both single kitty ladies, hehe

  2. Teresa 12/05/2011

    Hey Girlie
    Well done you!! Fantastic news about the new apartment, not so good about the kitties as that will keep me away AGAIN!! starting to get paranoid hehehe
    The apartment looks amazing and Alina will be so happy there, bet she cant wait:)
    Well done Angela you are really starting to kick in there. lol xxxx

    1. angela_carson 13/05/2011

      Thanks, Miss Tess. And you can totally come here…the windows are always open and the cats are not allowed in your guest room so come on!!! We have 400% taxed booze to consume!! Miss you soo much, big kiss. by the way, will vote for Char today! She looks amazing in the model pics oxoxo

  3. christina 13/05/2011

    Happy memories in your new home Darling!!! XXX

    1. angela_carson 14/05/2011

      Thanks, Miss Christina! Hope you will come to visit sometime in the future. Rando, Michael, James and a few of the guys are coming out in January…would be so much fun if you and Javier came too! Big kiss to you, enjoy the Ibiza opening parties sweeties. I will be there for a week in August (6-12th I think) so hope to see you then 🙂 xooxox

  4. Arshad 16/05/2011

    so these are your two cuties. I think you are having lots of fun with them after missing them for long time.
    Enjoy life
    Regards

    1. angela_carson 16/05/2011

      Thanks for reading the blog, Arshad!

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