Hotel Accolade Ahmedabad
Gujarat College Road Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 380006, India
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C'est parti : direction l'Est !
Chers tous,
Après quelques 2 semaines sans donner de signe de vie, étant reclus à Ahmedabad pour des cours malheureusement presque tous aussi peu captivants les uns que les autres, je pars demain pour 17 jours !
J'essaierai de vous tenir au courant au fur et à mesure de mes étapes mais voici pour info les principales villes au programme...
cf. la photo pour ...
School talks and deadly kites
... had to be closed to the public some time ago, after visitors had wandered in and not been seen again!
The school's manager kindly offered me to stay at his 'party plot' - basically a large, private grassed area where weddings are held. I stayed a couple of nights there, once getting terribly lost in Ghandinagar's perfect grid of featureless, identical wide avenues, after going out shopping one evening. By chance I stumbled upon the party plot again after an hour or so ...
Unwell in Ahmedabad
... driver then asked us for a tip, though we had already agreed to a price we knew was much higher than a local would pay. We thanked him, Gary reminding him that the price of his service effectively included a tip, and followed the 'boy' up to our room with our luggage.
After freshening up we had a quick recce of the area, ate some lunch and then in the afternoon we got a ride to the textiles market area, Law Gardens. It was a long row of stall after stall selling all kinds ...
Fighting off the Papparazzi
JUst to note our irish numbers dont work here(meteor want 60 quid and credit card details off us before letting us roam here)
and camera has viruses so can;t upload photos because the internet place scans memory cards before letting them be plugged into the computers.
After two days in Mumbai we were kinding getting a little restless. i
know its a huge place and there is loads and loads to do but the
humidity!!! it was torture. constant sweat and drinking 10 litres ...
Days 7 & 8
... the people in power, gathering supporters and publicity on the way. That's all I know. The rest of the info went over my head.
Gandhi's Ashram is where he and his followers lived according to the 6 or 7 rules of living he had devised. The museum goes into a lot of detail about them. They include non-violence, equality of all people, complete vegetarianism, and non-stealing. Non-violence seems to be the main one. Gandhi emphasised that it is an active, not passive, ...


