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A visit from Stalin

Ooty is awash with banners, arches and newly erected pagodas to welcome a visitor. Who can it be - a bollywood star? a cricketer? Susan Boyle? No- it's the minister himself, Mr M K Stalin. He's believed to be the minister for big hair; there's a lot of it about.
To Ooty....just

December 29th 2009
Dear reader, in case you've waited with baited breath for the next blog, it's taken a few days - every time we do a big trip something goes a bit awry. Last time it was an adventure with a volcano (see the S America blog in 2006); this time a bit more mundane, but in triplicate. The hotel in Coimbatore refused to accept that we'd booked with them, even with phone calls from the UK web site. A ... read more
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