Hotel Shan Royal
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Planes, Trains, Automobiles - The Beautiful South
... though much better than it used to be hear.
A few more insect bites later and we arrive into Chennai, or Madras as it used to be called. At the station we ran the usual gauntlet of people keen to take it out to your destination for four times the actual cost. They are also pretty good at grossly exaggerating the distance. A fine art I believe, and one I am glad we have not mastered at home. Metered Taxis are a genius invention. We found the prepay auto rickshaw booth ...
Leaving the Calcutta mood behind
... 12:00 for a cold lime soda.
We lunch at Trincas on Park Street, overseeing the diversion into Russell Street. There is a score of advertising displays that I can see from where we sit. Here they are:
- Ganga Awas – for country homes at Ranchat on Ganges, with a Frangipani flower.
- India's Hobby Centre display on its shop, but also an extra two displays: Black Dog – let the world wait; and Big ...
Chennai in a Day
I think I would've hated Chennai had it not been for the hospitality shown to me by Harish (a colleague from Manchester) and his uncle Damu. They arranged everything for me which meant I could see everything I needed to see and leave the next day.
Highlights:
Meeting the Damu, ...
Rickshaw Mania
... To get in we had to put our bags through a scanner and we had to be scanned ourselves, I’m not quite sure why but from what I heard we were not in a safe area.
We had to wake up at 5 AM in order to see the Taj Mahal at sunrise, so we woke up and got out, and as it turns out or hotel was a two minute drive to the Taj Mahal. There weren’t very many people there at all, which was pretty cool, and it was surprisingly like California weather there because it ...
In transit
... debating wrether or not I REALLY want a last dive THAT BAD. Of course I do. I grunt and moan and get myself out of bed and into a wet and cold bathing suit. 4 AM, I meet up with my fellow divers (we're 6 crazy people in total) and we're ready to head out. I'm half asleep on the couch of the dive center and the dive master/instructor/german dude Chris kicks me to wake up. I stammer to my feet, check my fins, my booties, my mask. Everything is there. We walk to the road where a rickshaw ...
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