posted by aligrae | 1:26 pm
Silly Point: Chutney, Cricket, Chennai
Food, Travel and (K)ulture
This is a record of AliGrae's encounters with food, sport and (k)ultur as they travel around India from home base in Chennai
Food, Travel and (K)ulture
This is a record of AliGrae's encounters with food, sport and (k)ultur as they travel around India from home base in Chennai
1 Comments:
Hellooo! Salaam! Namaste! How lovely to read at length your initial impressions of that misguided portion of Gondwanaland that decided to give the Himalayas a Liverpool kiss instead of frolicking in the Pacific like lazy old Oz.
Now seriously, at the risk of sounding patronising, it sounds like you two are responding in an entirely normal manner to the rich variety of sensory affronts to which you have been subjected. I remember being tailed by a rickshaw driver in Hue (central Vietname), in the pouring rain, for a good 10 minutes before I resorted to the use of strong expletives to persuade him that someone else might be a better customer. Of course I felt bad afterwards (being a rude Westerner abroad is such a bad look), but it had been a bad couple of days, and about the fiftieth really aggressive rickshaw-wallah we had encountered.
So whatever coping strategies you come up with (including retreating to the hills), if they work, good. But I hope you(se) are enjoying it, and I definitely recommend you try and get to either Mysore city or Hyderabad, as they are both reputed to have retained bucketloads of character from their princely past. And Ahmedabad has a textiles museum - I am so jealous..... Oh well, better get back to writing about India rather than experiencing it.
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