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Egad, Nightmare Time Taxidermy Jaguar on the wall. Would you like this in YOUR house? |
Thogorihunkel Coffee Drying Patio Next we visited the mill for Thogorihunkel Estate, India, where coffee in various stages and different processes formed a neat tapestry. |
Coffee Picker Style A personal favorite image of mine, the coffee pickers and their choices in socks. |
pulp natural estate robusta this is the parchment form of this pulp natural coffee, the nirali lot we sell. all that red brown stuff on the parchment in the dried fruity mucilage. we did a cupping here and this was the hands-down favorite. the robustas are impressive - can drink them straight i.e. a french press. no burned rubber robusta taints. -tom |
Cold Chillin' Over by the raised beds, the gringo group where rare birds and many stopped to watch us. |
A Walk in Chikmagalur I had some time to walk and shop in Chikmagalur, which is a rural center. I really like these kinds of towns |
A Walk in Chikmagalur Great painting. The owner got a kick out of it when I asked him if I could take a picture of his sign. |
A Walk in Chikmagalur I don't think Chikmagalur has many beaches in the vicinity. Maybe I am wrong. |
Monsoon Sale! I like the customization of terms to fit local conditions. I doubt a California "Monsoon Sale" would be very believable. |
A Walk in Chikmagalur Someone needs to work on presentation a little |
Phenolic Cleaner? Since Phenolic is a cup defect in coffee, maybe a dash of this would help? Phenolic Cleaner Latte? |
A Walk in Chikmagalur Local coffee roasters in Chikmagalur. I don't see their roasters ... supposedly they hide them in the back, but I wonder if they really have them at all. In the front of the store they have a big indusrial grinder, and a galvanized steel bin of roasted coffee. |
Bats Away! The next morning we stopped for breakfast and noticed the nearby Eucalyptus tree was loaded with bats! You can easily see the one in flight, but look at all of them hanging from the branches. |
Fantasy Bus The green dream bus passed us on the road with fine artwork. |
Local Big Wigs This is a political ticket, but check the guy in the bucket hat and sunglasses ... what's with that? Is the mob after you? |
Bollywood Drama "The Crazy Giirl", it reads. |
Wha??? On the back of an auto rickshaw, an odd message. Can anyone explain the 'A'. Just weird. |
Typical The family of 4 commutes on the moped, and the guy wears the helmet. This is in Bangalore |
Bangalore Shopping District Winding down our trip, we had some time to shop in Bangalore, where the mannequins are all very odd. |
Bangalore Shopping District Take this fractured guy for example... |
Out of Place Typical "Yeah Dude" advertising, quite out of place over grimey streets |
Mother Mary Says ... Motorcycle Parking Only |
A message to Christians I am not sure about the cross ... maybe to remind people of their faith so they won't piss on the wall??? |
Ahoy! Not sure what he is supposed to be, but he rocks |
Typical delivery car Much like the Piaggio Ape, very cool 3 wheel delivery rickshaws abound |
Yezdi Anyone? Yet another motorcycle I have never heard of, the Yexdi RoadKing. |
Lambretta? No ... It's a Vijai Super, Lambretta knock off 125 cc with those same long slender panels. I have a Servetta, which is basically another Lambretta copy from Spain, older than this one. |
Really, Don't It seems like defacing your own house is not a great option to stop people from peeing on it |
Odd tactic As far as I can tell they are putting every religious symbol they know to accompany the plea not to urinate on their wall, trying to appeal to man's better part in order to overcome the desire to pee. If you didn't see the earlier pictures, the Swastik is an old Hindu symbol. |
Shunned The woman in white, unseen. |
Spice Shop in Bangalore. He had everything, but no ground cinnamon. Drat. |
Balding girl. With the crown of her hair ripped out, she was highly unappealing as a mannequin... |
Barbie and Francie? I get the one, but what's with the bizarre puckering one - ugh! |
A Little Bummed Out Today A somewhat sullen mannequin. Now that's a new spin. Why shouldn't all manequins look a little bored? They just stand there all day... |
The Happy Hunter I found this embroidered wall hanging in the shop area of Bangalore, Donald Duck-ish fella out to shoot some ... er ... squirrels? deer? or Ducks? Murderer! Ben is gonna love this in his room. |
Sugar Cane Press A street vendor cane press |
 India Street Dog No 6 I liked this guy, again with the same build as our international mut, francy. |
 A picture says it all... the group was tired, some a little more than others, but we successfully packed a lot into a fairly tight itinerary, and were actually looking forward to the sleep we might get on long flights home. For me, it was a fairly nasty, packed flight to Milan, then on the Amsterdam for cupping. It would have been very nice to be directly on my way home. But ah well, there were tickets awaiting to that big soccer football match, Ajax versus Feyenoord, and a lot of good coffee to cup. Farewell -Tom |
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