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Tea and toy trains
... as they all thought that she was uncomfortable so they moved the luggage on the floor out of her way, piled it up between them, then moved people around with children thrown onto the other seat. Kathy sat, rather embarrassed, trying to stop them! We stopped half way through (a 2 hour journey) for tea and snacks and someone bought a pack of biscuits that got passed around. One of the little girls started singing along to her dads phone ringtone, which happened to ...
Ooty 4
... good restaurants in Ooty - at least from a foreigner's perspective, taking into account hygiene.
Monday, 04 April, 2011
Aside from my usual activities, today I changed my return train ticket to 3 days earlier. (I've already watched all of my Beverly Hillbillies videos - and I'm down to my last couple of documentaries.) All I have left are my books - which, actually, could last me for the rest of my life. But I do also need ...
Ooty 3
... Pakistan. All eyes throughout the land were glued to the TV sets. The tangible result for me was that there was no Tandoori chicken for my dinner sandwiches. I don't know what the correlation was. I suppose the cooks were in no mood to cook when there was such an important cricket match on TV.
Thursday, 31 March, 2011
It is the end of the month - and with that my rent was due. As I was paying my rent, my landlady told me that ...
Ooty 1
... in my direction – carrying a stack of boxes of granola bars. My immediate thought was that they must have bought them here since they were carrying them in their hands. I also figured that if they found granola bars, the place where they bought them might also have other goodies of interest to foreigners like me. So I ran back to catch up with them –and asked them where they had bought the stuff. They were in such a hurry that they didn’t even ...
"Elementary, my dear Watson"
... my blocked nose cleared and I stopped sniffling. I did however smell of eucalyptus for the next 2 days. We watched the beautiful sunset as we made our way down back to the hotel. The manager told us that we shouldn't buy anything from the markets as they often add other ingredients to the unseeming pure items. For example people will put kerosene into the eucalyptus oil to make more profit. How could people be so deceitful especially when it could effect ...


