It feels totally unreal. For the first time in our lives we are in India and at the moment can’t get our heads around the fact that we only left home 24 hours ago. And we are 5 1/2 hours ahead of the UK, so even the time conversion is a bit complicated.
First 7 hour leg to Dubai was easy – 4 seats to ourselves, and arrived in Dubai at about 9.00 so all fine.
Was pleased to see the plane took a by-pass around Syria, even though we did fly over Iraq at 40,000ft.
Dubai is interesting. It is massive and as a major hub is heaving at all times of day and night – 1.00 in the morning their time – with thousands of people milling around with different body clocks.
Next 4 hours was more of a challenge as little sleep and landed at Chennai (used to be known as Madras) at 8.00.
Met by our tour guide who didn’t want to lose us:
and thousands of fans ….
And it’s warm and sunny – 28 degrees with a light breeze 😎
So a bit of survival today, trying to stay up. Staying just outside Mamallapuram, so our guide took us for a brief visit – full-on guided tour tomorrow.
Crazily busy as it’s a long public holiday weekend with families out in their finery. And did I mention our fans earlier? Well Eileen’s anyway. On the busy beach:
Eileen was accosted 4 or 5 times in a few minutes by groups of women wanting their photos taken with her:
Finally we were lucky enough to be in town for the big annual dance festival. Here are one troupe having their photoshoot before they went on.
So as I said – a bit unreal to say the least. I’m sure we’ll be getting into the rhythm after a few days. And we were veggies today – fantastic curries.