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3 roupies pour un train
... Une très belle lumière.
Puis, nous visitons un jardin local, puis, un autre jardin...puis une roseraie pour changer et un dernier jardin pour la route. Un peu ennuyeux cette affaire.
Nous passons un moment chouette avec le guide d'une plantation de thé qui nous explique tout le process de fabrication. Veilles machines et odeurs fortes !
Le lendemain, nous poursuivons vers le Sud, à Munnar.
A suivre
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Down by the Riverside
... had applied lots of deep heat, so he was raring to go, and he did hit a couple of superlative sixes (did I mention there were some short boundaries?) and pick up two wickets. Fred was playing for the Indians, and there was a collective groan when he bowled one of our star batsmen. All was not lost though, as Gary returned the favour when it was his turn to bowl.
Everyone reached for the Voltarin at the drinks break, and I had to apply it to the ...
It's fun to stay at the Y.W.C.A.
... and grabbed a dorm bed. The woman on reception also managed to convince me to do a trek the next day around the tea plantations and surrounding tribal villages in the Nilgiri Hills, so I promptly walked to the bazaar to get a pair of long trousers (it happened to be quite chilly up here at an altitude of 2240m).
Got up bright and early for a breakfast of iolis (steamed rice flour cakes) with chutney and sambar (sort of ...
Ooty 3
... me, did you think that I was perhaps just passing by - on my way to the post office or something? WTF were you thinking?) Just to make sure, he even asked me the same question once again: "Are you in queue?" After confirming that I wasn't standing there just for my health, he reluctantly moved to his rightful place in the queue just behind me. I kept waiting for him to provoke me so that I could be justified in punching him in the face - which ...
"It's fun to stay at the ..."
... in Madras. One turns to the other and declares it too damn hot, the only thing for it is to decamp to the hills and wait out the hot weather. But, haul themselves up a mountain? Have all their essentials including the porcelain toilet lugged uphill to a more pleasant climate? Fine, but so dreadfully slow on the back of mules and by the sweat of the local brow. Far too tiresome. No, much better to build a railway and take the train straight there. ...
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