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Published: March 20th 2008
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As the plane was about to land i was asked to complete a landing pass and give the name andf address of my hotel, as i was doing this i noticed that my hotel was in mumbai, not chennai where i was about to land, to give you an idea of distance, if i was landing just outside west london, my hotel was just outside east.....berlin.
initialy i felt brave, not a problem, get some cash at the airport as your not supposed to take indain money into the country, you should get it when you arrive, taxi, hotel, all good. oh no, the currency exchange place at the airport only exchanges currency it does not let you purchaser it with a card. by luck i had convinced the girl at heathrow to give me a 100punds worth of rupees just in case, this was a just in case.
45 minutes later i had got myself into a 4 star hotel and was drinking a beer and smoking a cigar, i should have been called indianna not nathan.
CHENNAI
i was not due to meet with the group until 10am the following day so i decided to explore chennai on my own. i was a little apprehensive as
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