Welcome to India, here's your monsoon
Rain, rain, rain. Seven people dead. This is Chennai with an early monsoon season, and I'm coughing up the extra $8 a night for A/C.
How many Indian waiters does it take to get a bottle of mineral water? Five, and an hour. But I think that was my fault for starting off by asking for recommendations for food - soon, everybody was involved and arguing over whether I REALLY wanted masala tea with that yummy chicken dish. (Dammit - I did not travel thousands of miles to be denied my chai! So I got my way ... and I think I'll go get another cup soon.)
Let's just say that I had THE best Indian food ever just now. That may sound like a "duh" to y'all, me being in India and all, but in my travel experience the real, local food doesn't always live up to expectations (such as Italian pizza). This exceeded my expectations - YUM!
So, I slept until 2:00 pm because I didn't get to the hotel and all until after 5 a.m. I have a nasty headache from the weird sleep schedule, but I think it'll clear up soon. It looks like the rain has cleared for a bit, too, so I will go venture out soon. I'm in a great part of town I think, conveniently located and near everything, but it doesn't look too crazy-crowded.
Tomorrow I'm going to Pondicherry and I know I'm crazy. It's at least three hours each way in a non-A/C bus, but I've always heard about Pondicherry and Siva (Susan's roommate) who's from Chennai highly recommends it. And then the next day I'll do a city tour and maybe hang out at the Theosophical Society, depending on weather. And then I'm gone.
The most important time will be the wandering around I do alone now - that's how I get a feel for a place.
How many Indian waiters does it take to get a bottle of mineral water? Five, and an hour. But I think that was my fault for starting off by asking for recommendations for food - soon, everybody was involved and arguing over whether I REALLY wanted masala tea with that yummy chicken dish. (Dammit - I did not travel thousands of miles to be denied my chai! So I got my way ... and I think I'll go get another cup soon.)
Let's just say that I had THE best Indian food ever just now. That may sound like a "duh" to y'all, me being in India and all, but in my travel experience the real, local food doesn't always live up to expectations (such as Italian pizza). This exceeded my expectations - YUM!
So, I slept until 2:00 pm because I didn't get to the hotel and all until after 5 a.m. I have a nasty headache from the weird sleep schedule, but I think it'll clear up soon. It looks like the rain has cleared for a bit, too, so I will go venture out soon. I'm in a great part of town I think, conveniently located and near everything, but it doesn't look too crazy-crowded.
Tomorrow I'm going to Pondicherry and I know I'm crazy. It's at least three hours each way in a non-A/C bus, but I've always heard about Pondicherry and Siva (Susan's roommate) who's from Chennai highly recommends it. And then the next day I'll do a city tour and maybe hang out at the Theosophical Society, depending on weather. And then I'm gone.
The most important time will be the wandering around I do alone now - that's how I get a feel for a place.
posted by NOLA at 3:05 AM
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