For my post on my Uttaranchal trip, I got this “comment”:

sitting in front of the keyboard, overflow of feelings normally contained and stored

Over the years, I have tried to learn many things…in some things I have got farther than others….but always, always, I find that when one is beginning to learn about something, there will be someone to whom the complex difficulties that you face don’t exist, and to whom “it is all so simple”.

Here’s my account of our wonderful trip to Uttaranchal…

Talk about Ms Murphy. When we got up at 5.30 am, ready to drive the 25km to the Binsar Bird Sanctuary, which also has a view point for the Himalayan peaks…it was pouring with rain and actual hail. So we made another try at 10 am and went there and took the help of a wildlife guide in the sanctuary…who told us that due to the heavy rain, the birds had gone from the tall trees to the smaller ones lower down in the valley…near our resort, in fact!