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The Lonely Liar Strikes Again
Last time I wrote I was tossing up whether to go to the Gandhi Museum in Madurai and ended up going - a pretty impressive account of India's struggle for independence and Gandhi's life. Even showed us the original cloth he was wearing when he was shot - complete with blood stains. I can now understand just how important he was to India (and I've …
Temple overflow?!
The Mathura hotel proves to have 24-hours check in, which is just perfect for me - I can go for sigthseeing, and then return back and take a shower!
There is a great deal of ambivalence about the Indial folks. Let's take the riksha drivers. From one hand they are really annoying and want you to pay too much for too little. From the other hand, …
Day One - Weekend Road Trip!
... just grab onto the side of the bus if it is full and just... hang on, outside the doors... also, there are no doors. Options for harm and even death are high). Lots of talk about how they see us with our white skin and immediately tack on about 100% overage fees for anything we might need -- rickshaw ride? 200 rupees. Local, maybe 50 rupees. We have to learn how to negotiate quickly or we'll always overpaying and considered stupid really.
Anyway -- that night ...
Another temple climb
We arrived late afternoon in Trichy. We didn't plan to stay long in
Trichy so opted for a hotel near the bus station. We set ourselves up
in a government owned hotel called Hotel Tamil Nadu. We got a room with
satellite TV and room service from the restaurant attached to the
hotel. That was the evening planned! Not a chance we were leaving when
we could relax and be waited on while doing so! The next day we woke up
early with a little help from room ...
Acclimatising to food and locals
... shakes. I was maintaining a healthy 65kg, and to drop below 60 would be devastating. I let Joseph do the ordering and within seconds a waiter boy bowled over and slammed down a plate with a huge and roughly folded crepe-style thing. There was a curried lentil soup thing with it and I started munching slowly and with a lot of trepidation. I have now accepted the fact that I am most likely to get ill again, but I'd rather force-feed and have something to chunder than be ...
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