THAT TIME IT SNOWED
by Catherine Smith (Oxford)
Mandira’s from New Delhi, youngest grand-daughter of the 2nd Prime Minister of India, Mr Lal Bhadhur Shastri; she’s completing her Masters in Hospitality from Oxford Brookes, and manages Freud‘s. This place has so much soul, she says. Unique.
New Delhi’s full of heritage too, she says, but Oxford is home now. I’m addicted to the city - every time I travel outside, it’s such a relief to come back. You can learn so much by just walking round - you become a part of it. Every building is just so nice!
That time it snowed, she laughs, my friends and I just sat up all night, looking at it. It settled on the architecture - it was so magical. And the summer’s good too. Come back when it’s hot, she urges me, it’s a wonderful atmosphere in the summer. Everyone is smiling.
Come back in the evening, too, she says. We have great parties here. Everyone is drinking cocktails and enjoying themselves: letting their hair down. We light candles and the whole place floods with light; there’s such a feeling of warmth, it makes you want to stay.
What Catherine Smith says about THAT TIME IT SNOWED:
Inspired by a conversation with Mandira Shastri, manager at Freud’s
