Yesterday’s Midsummer Eve party was a blast: we had tons of beer, a huge amount of meat in the grill (3.5 kg of beef fillet cost less than 2000 rupees or 30 euros), small potatoes with Finnish butter sauce and just the right amount of brilliant people to share the fun. What I really like about India is that I can throw a party at approximately the same cost as in Finland, but the end result is an order of magnitude fancier: apart from the obviously cheaper food (beer is roughly the same nowadays), the best thing is that I have the staff to do things that take time, leaving me free to plan and organise. It seems like I’ll have to practise a bit with it since I’m used to doing everything by myself so far. I hope the maid doesn’t quit after clearing the mess we made.

Today is the moving date for the previous residents, so I will have this place all to myself before sundown.

My furniture should be here in a couple of days, so quite soon there’s only one hugely important thing missing.

My loved ones.

Tags: accommodation, friends and family, my pimped-up interior design, parties