ABOUT

Hello

Thanks for tuning into my blog.

A Note About Me

I started writing as BombayJules (rather awkwardly and disjointedly) when I moved to Mumbai in June 2012.  Previously, I was a Financial Controller - working mostly in the real-estate industry - and living happily with my husband ("Mr Jules") and two cats in an old house in South London.

Many of my friends are already expats living abroad - in such glamorous places as New York, Barcelona, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and New Zealand.  I kind of always dreamt that if I could live and work somewhere overseas, it would be somewhere like New York - clean, well infrastructured, cosmopolitan and buzzing.  Or Tokyo, with its fabulous sushi and hi-tech toilets. But it was never to be. And I never thought for one moment I'd end up living in India.

However, when  Mr Jules was asked by his company to come out to Mumbai to work, we were surprisingly unhesitant to make the leap. Mumbai! - hardly the sophisticated "Sex and the City" metropolis I had dreamt about, but something was pulling us and we didn't say no.  In fact (and rightly so) we viewed the move as an exciting opportunity both on professional and personal levels. 

Before moving out, I did a lot of research on Mumbai, mostly through MumbaiBoss. This site alone made me realise that Mumbai is rather a cool city.  OK, it may be lacking in natural beauty -  but the arts, restaurant and shopping scene kind of makes up for that.  The upwardly mobile are burgeoning, and the not so upwardly mobile are trying their hardest.  Everyone generally has a smile.

As you can tell from my blog, I have not looked back since moving to Mumbai.  Every day brings a new experience, a new insight, new sounds, smells and flavours.  Every day also sees the opening of new shops and restaurants (spare weekends are always filled with shopping and eating!) and each day brings the the knowledge of interesting places to see.  This is a city that is constantly evolving and ever on the move. Even better, Mumbai is a spring board from which to travel around this incredible country and already Mr Jules and I have seen some truly amazing sights.  What's more the people have been so welcoming and so warm - you can't help but fall in love with India.

Through my blog, I try (foremostly) to keep in touch with friends and family.  Like postcards home without risking the Indian postal system, which people can read at their own leisure. However, I also try to share my knowledge with potential and even existing expats about where to visit, where to shop and where to eat in Mumbai, in the hope that others will try to appreciate the city as I do.

If you are a first timer to this blog, please read my post "Bombay: A Love Love Relationship"....to give you a little taster of my thoughts about Bombay.

Thanks, and I hope you will continue to read and give feedback.  Please also join my new Facebook Page where I will post the photos that I am collecting during my time in India (that are too many to fill this blog!).

Warm regards 

BombayJules

A Note About Photographs

As you will see from my blog, there are rather a lot of photographs.  I take 98% of these myself, on a little Sony Nex-5 camera (I am telling you which camera as a lot of people have asked me).  I do not watermark or copyright my pictures.  If you would like to re-use them for whatever purpose, it would be polite to drop me a line to let me know.  Even if it's just to give me an ego boost.



BombayJules never misses a photo opportunity!

A Note About Comments

I love to hear from anyone who is genuinely interested in my blog - be it friends, family,  Mumbaikars, Indian Nationals and NRIs, expats and other bloggers etc etc.  However, if you are commenting just in order to leave a link to a commercial website, I will regard this as spam and the comment will be deleted.  Thanks for your understanding, but nobody likes a spammer.