Sunday morning we took another walk, this time heading up the road (toward Mussoorie) rather than down toward Rajpur. The Christian Retreat and Study Center is across the road from the Moravian Institute, both of which we have visited before. We turned off onto a small road at that point, still heading up. We wondered if it was the old walking road to Mussoorie, and did find out that it was. On the way back, we stopped for some tea at a shop along the road.
Property is prime here; many places had signs like this.
We spent Sunday afternoon in Dehra Dun. We went into Paltan Bazaar, the major shopping area for the city. The bazaar seems much as it was when we spent the winter of 1968-69 in language school there. However, the population has exploded, and it is much more crowded. It appears that Sunday afternoon is a popular shopping time.
I wanted to buy some yarn, so we went to the same yarn shop that has been there for 50 years or more.
After visiting the bazaar, we headed back to Astley Hall to have tea with our friend Ajit. He took us to a new restaurant above the Standard Bakery. The owner is a former cruise ship assistant maitre’d and was quite chatty. It is a nice quite place, above the chaos of Astley Hall with its Macdonald’s and Nirula’s fast food shops.
Looking into Paltan Bazaar from the entrance.
Two blogs in a row featuring a cow!
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