I can’t say it was the most relaxing night’s sleep, the bed was comfy enough but I woke up early worrying about breakfast. The thought of Mike without his morning coffee was not something I wanted to contemplate. Thankfully I had a ‘save the day’ thought. I remembered the app I’d used in Bengaluru to order the vegan cake and I thought, I wonder if that would work here.

Being ‘old’ and someone who tries to live a ‘principled’ life, I’m not one who uses the likes of Amazon or ‘uber eats’ or other similar fast food delivery apps back at home. I’m always concerned that the reason they are so cheap and so fast is that someone somewhere in the chain is being horribly exploited. That’s my main reason for avoiding them – but this situation was an emergency!

I logged into ‘Swiggy’ and searched groceries. I managed to add soya milk, jam, bread, cornflakes and Special K to my basket. I ordered two cereals as at 6.30am I was laying there trying to decide how many grams were in a regular cereal box. I had visions of one fun sized box of cornflakes between two hungry vegans. I thought better to be safe than sorry. I checked out only to be told the transaction had failed. 

I soon realised this was because the shop where the items would come from wasn’t open yet. I waited a while until it was, it worked! I watched the delivery time tick down 20 min, 15, 10, 8 etc. when it got to 4 I wandered out onto the street to wait. Sure enough a moped turned up with my bag of vegan goodies. I return to Mike who was still in bed to show him my swag – he was impressed (I’m sure this is one of the reasons he married me!). Boosted by my success in securing vegan breakfast (and my abandoning of all my usual principles) I moved onto a hunt for coffee. Twenty minutes later we’re supping on two Starbucks’ Americano coffees with warm soya milk! 

Please be assured my moral principles will return when I get back to the UK, it’ll be back to the local Co-op for last minute food emergencies then!