dagmaraka wrote:well, SuperG, it doesn't have to be an ear. Simply have the most flattering feature of yours included in the photos. Even if it has to be blurred out. ;-)
Ha, Ha.... Anyway I remember him wished once to be a Porn Star... This is a very good opportunity for you Prince.
We are not allowed R rated pics in this forum.....
vinsan wrote:chinmayee_s wrote:Hey Clary...
Saw your message just now - late!! I somehow thought you'll be in Bombay for longer!!..i've replied.
Hey chin,
do u stay in mumbai?
No I dont, i stay in bangalore...i meant to say that i didnt realize how soon Clary and Mc were going to be in Bangalore...it's raining here in Bangalore (and in Kerala tooo where Clary and Mc are headed)...rains all day...but it isnt very heavy...i'm sure they're apalled at the state of the roads though.
Such an awful day!!
...A city bus hit my friend's (brand-new) car (when i was travelling to office with her) and there's a huge dent. And then when i got down to see what had happened, i stepped into a pothole (filled with slush) and and i'm currently nursing an aching ankle in office. my white kurta (why i wore it today, i dunno) is now brown
reading the past 5 pages is kind of exciting
Clary and McT, I'm expecting you folks to tell me what I should do if I plan another trip to India, so keep good notes - or better yet, write me an email.
im fine - at home now. looks like my ankle is bad.
Sorry to hear that, my old China (old-fashioned British sland) and hope it doesn't mean we won't meet tomorrow!
I will let McTag continue with the saga, since he's had his shower now... to warm up after our cool trip to the Nandi Hills....
McTag writes
Yes, showered now and having read the last 3 or 4 pages...we are guests this evening of Paul who lives in a lovely luxury apartment/ service flat and is most hospitable, and we're all getting ready to go out for a Thanksgiving meal.
We will be giving thanks, of course, to Ganesh for having got us this far. (He is sitting beside my bed in the other flat at the moment, Vinit, looking after things.)
I'm not silent, folks, it's just I couldn't get a word in edgwise as Clary and Vinit talked all the time, non-stop.
I was on my own in Mumbai so the culture-shock was severe. The Tourist Information desk at the airport got me a good hotel, quite reasonable and quite convenient. My planned fist contact was sick, by the way Walter, so a quick change of plan was necessary. Shadi showed up at my hotel for breakfast next day, however, and we are invired to dine with him on our return...must organise that.
The taxi ride to Gateway to India (waterfront downtown) was only 70 or 80 rupees, which is about £1.
I wandered around a lot, having many conversations with street enrepreneurs and beggars. You are never alone in Mumbai, it seems. I found a cafe to eat at, and had a dal-rice, which my Manchester experience had taught me to like (and recognise the hindi name)
The next day, since we're on the subject of food, wandering around near the Naval Dockyard (steady there, Gautam) I had a plateful of vegetable curry and rice, quite a big plateful, which cost 10 rupees or about 12 pence.
Mumbai was hot hot hot.
I walked up to the top of the hill on Elephanta Island, after a pleasant sail across the bay, and I was sweating like the proverbial (your phrase here)
I bought some small bananas, about the size of a (your descriptive noun here) from the street traders near Byculla station, and that sustained me in the hotel room for supper and snacks.
So, I haven't had to "rough it" yet- that bit comes later when we start travelling by train and finding hotels as yet unbooked- after next Sunday we are going separate ways, wandering round Kerala and hoping to get back to Mumbai before the plane leaves on the 15th....
oops, sorry, forgot to change user to me...bye for now, McT
Hmmm & I thought u r silent Mc....
This is me.
A warm greeting to all my readers.
We're going off from Bangalore & Mysore on Saturday for two days & nights in a nature reserve, to talk to the animals.
Byeee again
Errr....steady on again, that should be "first contact", not "fist"....God, the trouble I can cause myself....
The McT is now wrapping his laughing gear round a gin and tonic and some stale cashews, and as he casually let slip, we are about to go for a THANKSGIVING MEAL can you imagine, 3 non-Americans eating turkey and pumpkin pie in Bangalore... the bogglement of the mind is stupendous.
We have walked in gardens and visited the cathedral and walked through the High Court, a public thoroughfare it seems though it was stiff with berobed law persons, like flocks of starlings. We have eaten chicken and fish and 'lamb' (I know very well it's goat) and lots of veggies, and rice and roti, and I introduced McT to the wonderful masala dosa which is the perfect light lunch or supper, eaten with sweet South Indian coffee. And we have experienced road surfaces beyond the imaginings of Dante, potholes of great depth filled with sludgy water, piles of granite slabs waiting to be bashed up into paving stones, mud ubiquitous, high pavements with storm drains.... and as for the TRAFFIC! For me, not so amazing, but it is culturally shocking for McT. scooter taxis 5 abreast with 3 taxis or private cars and a lorry and a bus - all sharing the three lanes of the ringroad, trying to avoid the 20 pedestrians who in turn are trying to avoid the puddles, potholes etc... Very picturesque!
Monkeys weren't a problem at Nandi Hills but where we are staying, in an apartment in 'Golden Enclave', they come onto the balconies and into the flats if they can, make straight for the kitchens and ransack the place. The management has been thinking about solutions to this problem for some years.....
And now to that Thanksgiving Turkey....
Clary wrote:The McT is now wrapping his laughing gear round a gin and tonic and some stale cashews, and as he casually let slip, we are about to go for a THANKSGIVING MEAL can you imagine, 3 non-Americans eating turkey and pumpkin pie in Bangalore... the bogglement of the mind is stupendous.
We have walked in gardens and visited the cathedral and walked through the High Court, a public thoroughfare it seems though it was stiff with berobed law persons, like flocks of starlings. We have eaten chicken and fish and 'lamb' (I know very well it's goat) and lots of veggies, and rice and roti, and I introduced McT to the wonderful masala dosa which is the perfect light lunch or supper, eaten with sweet South Indian coffee. And we have experienced road surfaces beyond the imaginings of Dante, potholes of great depth filled with sludgy water, piles of granite slabs waiting to be bashed up into paving stones, mud ubiquitous, high pavements with storm drains.... and as for the TRAFFIC! For me, not so amazing, but it is culturally shocking for McT. scooter taxis 5 abreast with 3 taxis or private cars and a lorry and a bus - all sharing the three lanes of the ringroad, trying to avoid the 20 pedestrians who in turn are trying to avoid the puddles, potholes etc... Very picturesque!
Monkeys weren't a problem at Nandi Hills but where we are staying, in an apartment in 'Golden Enclave', they come onto the balconies and into the flats if they can, make straight for the kitchens and ransack the place. The management has been thinking about solutions to this problem for some years.....
And now to that Thanksgiving Turkey....
Are u drenched? Its raining a there I heard.
Great to hear from you both and thanks for colourful descriptions. Have a great onward journey, and keep posting!
Sorry its a bit hot for you McT. Keep taking the Gin and Tonic...As I write its almost pitch black, strong cold northerly wind and torrential hail/sleet, are you getting homesick?
(but I'm not wet either Vinsan, as I'm inside, as I guess are Clary and McT when it rains.)
I don't feel so left out now.
The description of the roads with all the potholes, mud and slush in Bangalore was just like my walk from the car park to the office this morning! Well, perhaps it wasn't quite so warm.
Anyway keep those accounts coming - it's a wonderful way to follow the footloose and fancy free while the rest of us have to work! :wink:
Special Greetings to McTag and Clary
Fiona
Thanks for those warm reports - it's snowing all over the state here right now. :wink:
Okay today I'm in a cybercafe (and my colleague is in the next booth) having had a tour of the handicrafts shops along M G Road.
There are more shops and more crafts than you can possibly imagine....if you need a carved wooden elephant, I'm your man.
Off for lunch soon (why do my posts always mention food?
As we came up through the mall to this internet cafe, a muezzin called the faithful to prayer, relayed on the tannoy. (maybe the singular is different?)
Anyway, it's abroad all righty. Different.
Catch you later,
McT
Have a good lunch, McTag!
No snow here but we have freezing temperatures.
McTag, I bet you have been longing for those freezing feet :wink:
Thinking about going out to take photos of our Xmas Eye if the night sky is clear. If they are any good I will post a picture, that is if I can ask you, Walter to help me. I have no idea how to do this on an A2K thread.
I'm off to brave the elements, I may be gone some time! Byeeeee
Fiona
