Beats playing bridge! Thanks for letting us know aboutthe blog. have enjoyed catching up with your lives out there and the photos are fab. looking forward to bridge in June Malcolm.
Reply to Rajesh Hi Rajesh, Me too from Chennai and living in Dubai. I'm really shocked with your comments. You know about chennai and it's people. It has lots and lots of good souls and few junk people. Don't know what made you to say, "i don't feel proud".. You'll have to accept people, religion and country as it is and lot of proud things to say about our mother land/home town.
Dear Margaret, it's unfortunate you've met few wrong persons in your journey, but don't come to a conclusion with that about chennai or india.
Regards
Srini
Thank you Jennifer! Only just read your comments, not having looked at my blog for some time. It WAS wonderful. I don't know if you read the blog because you know India, or because you hope to go, but you can probably tell which places I would recommend. Best wishes, Margaret
Hello Rajesh Oh, Rajesh, I had a wonderful time in India. I'm sorry, I only just read your comments as I haven't looked at my blog for some time. If I sounded jaded, it was because I was ill, and took some time to feel well again. In fact, people were so kind to me when I was ill, and I lost none of my possessions when it would have been so easy to take them from me on that platform. I met friendship and interest everywhere, and have no unhappy memories about the people whom I met. Certainly Chennai as a town was difficult, but not its people, and I hope I'll be able to come back one day. Thanks so much for getting in touch. Best wishes, Margaret
Reply to Margatet Hello Margaret,
i read your blogs .. can't tell you whether I feel happy after reading about your 'Encounters' . I am from Chennai , working in IBM. I express my apologies if you got treated badly.
People here ,would have been friendly if you were a LOCAL. Since most of them don't understand English ( including the various personnel that you had mentioned ..Police..Nurses .. goes on ) they treat you as strangers. There are good places to visit , provided you get the help of a Reputed travel agent (
Say SOTC )
I can assume you would have got cheated at few places, made to travel in over-occupied trains/buses ..these may make you feel really bad about India ...may be you are wondering if we are civilized people...but this is India ..( I dont feel proud though )
All I can suggest you is , donot trust anyone easily ( I could imagine what is running in ur mind about Indians now ..)
Carry emergency phone numbers ( Police- 100 ) ur embassy numbers.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday.
Rajesh
thank you! Margaret,
I came upon your blog by accident, and was so fascinated that I read all the way through. Thank you for your wonderfully evocative descriptions and your beautiful photos! What an amazing trip it must have been.
Hospital or not? Hmm. Not really feeling better to be perfectly honest - so it's off to the GP tonight. So I'll just do a last posting and wrap up these Indian adventures. Drink soon, anybody? I'll bring the pictures too!
Wildlife Your perspective on India's wildlife made interesting reading. I for one believe that our greatest wealth is "wildlife" and that we, the people of India, are simply not realising it yet!
I run an online community called IndianWildlifeClub.com Do visit it !
Jobs for the boys? Jobsworth more likely. Just had an altercation on Mysore Station which I didn't win....'More than......' etc. Hope life's food at the Deli!
M x
J.F.T.B you mentioned security guards on all 'doors', when i was travelling in India we had a little saying on noticing the amount of people one had to pass through to get a train ticket, pay a bill, etc, 'Jobs for the Boys'. I still use it today!
Retired May 2007, and since then have enjoyed a month in India, about which I wrote several blog entries. Now I spend much of my time with my husband in France, in a small town in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and from time to time, write blog entries about our experiences... full info
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Thanks!
What - even when the roof leaks?? Actaully, even mending tiles can seem fun when the sky is blue!