Mumbai

Trip Start Oct 27, 2007
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Trip End Apr 01, 2008


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Monday, March 10, 2008

The taxi fare from Palolem to the airport in Goa was pretty steep, but got us there on time. After having to faff around wth some tight airport security, and pretty much having to empty my bag out in th terminal so they could see the chargers and camera stuck deep down in my bag, we boarded th Air Indigo flight to Mumbai, which was short and sweet.

After checking in to a hotel recommened by some other travellers we met in Palolem, we went for a walk around the sights of Colaba where we were staying, just behind the grand Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Unfortunately the Gateway to India was covered in scaffolding, and surrounded by men selling huge phallic balloons with the call, 'Want a big one, sir?'. After briefly loosing my rag wth a group of boys (in India, that means any male from age 8 to 80) taking pictures of Shell wth their camera phones and flipping them the bird asking if they'd like a picture of that, we headed off for a bit of culture at the Museum of Modern Art, where there was a great selection of photographic exhibitions. First and foremost was the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition which was brilliant, followed by local photographers original work, all of which inspired Shell to get out here with her camera and get some great shots of Mumbai.

That evening, we decided to head to the cinema and have a relaxing couple of hours in front of the big screen. The Regal cinema was definietly nothing like the Siam Centre in Bangkok, more a quaint little cinema. The film was 10,000 BC, which I'm glad we saw - it's good to see a truly terrible film every now and again, they make you appreciate the good ones even more. Avoid it. It was made even more jarring by having the trailers in an interval in the middle of the film.

The next day, we headed back to the airport, to catch our flight to Chennai and then on to our next destination, Sri Lanka. We were a little worried after the recent news reports of bombings and general trouble with the Tamil Tigers, but it was a necessity, as we were on the last day of our Indian Visa, and didn't realy want to confirm reports about outsyating your Indian Visa and prison food...

So next stop Colombo, after a brief (very brief...) stop back in Chennai.
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