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Fresh out of the Aravali Hospital, Jenny and I decided to head South to the little visited state of Gujarat. If you've never heard of this place (Guja-what?) then here's a crash course on everything there is to know about it:

-Its Gandhi's birthplace
-booze is illegal
-the last name Patel comes from here
-its the state below Rajasthan
-everybody's got an uncle in Toronto

Our first stop was Ahmedabad, which is the economic centre of Gujarat. We had heard some dreadful comments from other travellers who had been there but our time there turned out to be quite fun.

There are no amazing sights in Ahmedabad but for such a huge metropolis people are very friendly, laid back, and very much unaccustomed to seeing foreign tourists which is an appealing feature after having spent a lot of time in Rajasthan.

We got to savor our first Gujarati thali, in Ahmedabad, which is a meal that consists of an insane amount of dishes. We had something in the vacinity of 25 dishes served to us in one sitting. This is sumo-wrestler diet territory. Which is exactly what I needed after losing weight during my hospital stay. It

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The story of Lucky is that it was, and is, Ahmedabad's popular place for tea and a bun with their own fresh butter from decades. When they decided to expand and add a South Indian/snacks place, they found that the graves below the shop they had been using by chance. They did not know who were buried here but decided to respect them by not destroying the tombs but covering them with fresh flowers daily. This is not a cementry but the restaurant owners respect for those buried below the place he has been using for decades.

The story of Lucky is that it was, and is, Ahmedabad's popular place for tea and a bun with their own fresh butter from decades. When they decided to expand and add a South Indian/snacks place, they found that the graves below the shop they had been using by chance. They did not know who were buried here but decided to respect them by not destroying the tombs but covering them with fresh flowers daily. This is not a cementry but the restaurant owners respect for those buried below the place he has been using for decades.