Landour (Mussoorie)

Most Woodstockers are nostalgic about the monsoon, though we'd probably be a lot less so if we had to live through the entire season again!

I had not been to India during the monsoon season since 1981, and had forgotten how beautiful the hills are when they're lush and green and wet. Every tree is covered in ferns and moss. And, after a while, so are you. Nothing ever dries thoroughly during the monsoon; bedsheets feel damp when you crawl in at night, and you have to keep a strong lightbulb burning in the closet so your shoes don't go moldy.