Maharashtra Day

This Saturday it was Maharashtra Day, it was 50 years ago that the current state Maharashtra was formed (a holiday and NO working Saturday!). Together with Elaine and Mike Wood we went up to the Kamala Nehru Park (on top of Malabar Hill, interesting article on Wikipedia with some old pictures!) from where you have a beautiful view over Chowpatty Beach and the Queen's Necklace. The whole beach was crowded with people to watch the celebrations, while the VIP area was almost empty ...

From the Nehru park we walked to the Hanging Gardens (also known as PMG, when you look at Google maps and zoom a bit in on the park, you see they used the letters P-M-G for the lanes). It was my first time up here and perhaps because of the high concentration of Parsis at Malabar Hill and being next to the Tower of Silence I had expectations like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but actually it is rather flat and open.

From the top of Malabar Hill we went for dinner in the Breach Candy Club, to celebrate Ivone's membership (she got her card on Queen's Day).