I thought spending six nights ans seven days on a train would be a painful experience but in fact it was fantastic. The train crosses Northern China, Siberia and Russia at such a leasurely speed that the landscape unfolds with an unassuming drama just beyond the glass. I spent much of my time trying to draw the vanishing horizon lines on the train window with a marker pen. It is only now that I am back that I am able to see video clips of some of that.

Punjabi meal

Today 45 Punjabi site workers [all involved with pouring concrete] came to have a Punjabi meal for lunch. The cooking of the food and even serving the meal would have been impossible without Sachdev's help. His aunt cooked the meal on Sunday at her home in Hayes and on Monday morning we drove down to Bristol, where in great haste we heated up the food before serving it in the information centre. The whole thing was a fantastic success and a great way to start the recipe project.