Now that title got your attention!!!
Forgot to mention an experience at the Taj Mahal. I was going through the security gate there and the armed guard starts emptying my bag. Lots of people queuing up behind me. He pulls out a condom (god knows how that got in there!) waves it around in the air looking puzzled at it and then says "No that can't go in Taj Mahal". Well I laughed.
Spent the last couple of days in Varanasi. It's a great place with lots going on. Spent an hour with the owner of one of the burning ghats (ghat is a section of the river bank). He effectively was an undertaker. He took me through the whole cremation process. Very interesting. Saw a corpse who was being cremated in the clothes he died in - not even in a shroud. Very strange.
Went to a Bhuddist site today claiming to be the birthplace of Bhuddism. Not much more to tell you about that one. Bit disappointed actually.
So tomorrow I fly to Hyderabad and warmer climes. Seems all the mid range hotels are booked up so I'm staying in a dodgy place down a back street. Cheap as chips but lord knows what it will be like. I now realise the Lonely Planet Guide descriptions are a bit on the rose coloured spectacles side.
Hope you are all looking forward to Christmas. Still not sure where I will be.
TTFN
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Missing you loads darling xxx
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Hi there, Hope your xmas went well. Where are you now? Julia x
Forget last comment now know where u r! Catch up again soon Julia
Hi Michael
Well that title certainly got our attention!!
Sounds like you are having a fab time...
Missing you loads though, and can't wait to have you back at work. :-)
Jaqs & Shaz x
Hi JC and Shaz. Good to hear from you. I'm certainly missing work. Yeah right! Should see you next Monday but you never know!!!!!
M xxx
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