Hotel Ilapuram Vijayawada
Gandhi Nagar Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Patrick's account of Indian schools
As dictated by Patrick
We went to a village to see a school that had a project where two English girls called Becky and Hannah are working. Mum works for a charity called Project Trust and Project Trust sent these two girls from England to help with schools with children that don’t have much money and live in the middle of nowhere.< …
Visiting the school at Suryapet
In the morning we visited their school AVV High School. We had a lot of fun at the school - nobody was remotely interested in us - they just loved meeting the children, particularly Jake. Patrick disappeared at break time and apparently a big group of children took him all round the village to meet everyone. We were introduced in assembly and then …
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Overnight in Vijay
Murphy's law: Our train the next day was delayed. If we’d had that delay the night before we’d have happily been half way to Bhubaneswar by now. The train journey was uneventful. We arrived in Vijayawada 8 hours later, it was pretty quiet around the place. We found a hotel (not very clean with funny stench) and went ...
Vijayawada
... was very professional, very calm and relaxing and very well organized. After having a chat with the Monk who ran the school over a cup of chai and a couple of digestives, we were both told that we would have to stand up in front of the whole class and talk about our experiences to date. Upon hearing the news we were both very nervous, not knowing what to say and wish we had had time to plan. Not only were we representing Krishna, but we were representing ...
Bad timing strikes again.
... the lives of the seven Qutb Shahi kings who ruled here between 1518 A.D. and 1687 A.D. After the fort, we head to the nearby Qutb Shahi tombs, where the kings are buried. The mausoleums are grand, the site peaceful and pleasant. Finally, we walk around the centre of Hyderabad, dominated by the Charminar, a commemorative building erected by the fourth Qutub Shahi king. The surrounding bazaar is a baffling bustle of ...


