Sunday In The Countryside

Today we had a lazy morning followed by a nice long drive out to the foothills surrounding Mumbai. We stopped for lunch at a great little spot called the Royal Stag with great food and a lot of strange rules (numbers 7 and 9 specifically):


Then we continued uphill to check out the view which was breath taking.







We were very fortunate to get there when we did because within about five minutes the clouds rolled in right on our heads and we were engulfed in fog and pretty soon rain. Check it out:



Eventually it made it look like this on our drive down:


Then on our way back we stopped for Chikki which is like Indian Peanut Brittle but with nuts other than peanuts. It's really only so-so and I'm not much of a fan. The other thing we stopped and got was cooked corn on the cob from a little stand on a bridge which was rubbed in lime and salt and was absolutely DELICIOUS, even this monkey thought so: