Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2004 at 11:18 AM in
Travel
Arrived safe and sound,after14hrs travel. We managed to loose our luggage at the airport along with a lot more people. Never mind someone there to help us {Indian style} fill in lots of forms, go and buy your selves some more cloths, then give us a phone call later. All this will be paid for. So we get in a taxi to go to Mammallapuram, 2hrs ride, find a hotel and go for some lunch, fortuatley before we buy any clothes we phone the airport only to find our bags were there all the time. Back to airport to get bags and back again, AND NOW WE BEGIN OUR HOLIDAY.That was yesterday sorted out today we have been looking around. It is a large temple village with lots of shops and eating places. There is a beach but we have only had a look at it up to now. It is very hot and so we are trying to keep to the shade or find a bar for a nice cool drink. The atmosphere around here is fantastic, lots of noise ,smells, and different types of people. So to sum it up we are having a great time
Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 04:02 PM in
Personal
At 6.30am Andy phoned to say he has passed his exams that he was unable to do last year because of ill health. Well done Andy.
With less than 24hrs to our holidays I woke up full of cold and aching all over. All day I have been blowing my nose and it is now red and sore, but its no problem because very soon it will be red and sore with sun burn. So at least my nose as a head start on the rest of my body, I just hope I feel better for flying tomorrow
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 at 10:26 AM in
Travel
48 hrs to go [INDIA HERE I COME] Packing is nearly done now as I have alot of other things to see to before we leave.I hope I can carry my back pack as it is looking rather full and thats before I start to buy when I get there.Why is it that you need to take so much when you go away, every thing is essential, but when you get there you dont use half of it. My excuse is that we could end up in some remote area and not be able to buy things. Our intentions are to get a taxi from the airport when we land straight to a beech resort, find a hotel, and crash out for a few days before setting off on our travels. We have nothing booked for this holiday we will just work our way south in our own time visiting temples by the dozen, beeches when we need to chill out and places that people recommend on the way. We have done this in the past and it works well, you see a lot of things that you wouldnt see on a package tour and it is much much cheaper. The only concern I have is the food. We stay vegetarian to avoid food poisioning, but eating curries for breakfast, dinner and tea starts to get a bit much. One consolation is that I loose weight on this type of holiday and at the end of it MsDonnalds looks like 5 star food [sad]. I am hoping to keep up with my blog whilst I am away but it will depend on internet acsess. So now I will go and pack my sun cream, zip my back pack up and try to put all thoughts of you guys slogging away for the next month
Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at 11:24 AM in
Personal
Arrived home safe and well, if not a little tired.Janet and I had a fantastic break with Paul,it was just what the Doctor ordered. Now its back to reality, cooking, cleaning and washing before I set off for India next week.[I hope Chris is feeling strong,with all the stuff we are taking that he as to carry]
I have set my web cam up on Yahoo messenger I think! and now I am going to down load some games that Beth as shown me [thanks Beth], then I can waste even more time on the computer.
Posted on Monday, February 2, 2004 at 09:03 PM in
Travel
All best laid plans go wrong! Today I had A doctors appointment at 9.30.My friend who had stayed over night had a hospital appoinment this afternoon, the plan was to go to doctors do some shopping, call at friens ex, to get some cloths , then on to hospital and back around 2pm. for me to start packing.
The reality of it was totaly different. First dash off to doctors a little later than planned because we both wanted to have a bath and didnt allow enough time. Arrive at doctors and sit in crowded waiting room, when my phone starts to play stupid music full volume, switched it off quickly. Doctors went v. well so on to next job. visit to Mr.Ex. That went quicker than planned due to unreasonable behaviour,so we dash on to next job shopping[Chris needs to eat while I am away] . Once this was quicker than we realised and we arrive at hospital half an hour earlier than planned. The doctor arrives and starts clinic my friend is first in [great] no, he wants her to go for an xray then come back,that done we wait to see doctor again, He is not happy with results and wants a scan doing. Off to another department, back to doctor, sees what the problem is and decides to do minor treatment on the spot but needs to get tools ready [more waiting] eventually leave hospital with a releived friend and 2hrs. behind time. I still have to make tea, clean The Lodge, finish washing, start packing, get hair cut, phone Janet to arrange meeting tomorrow.
Its now 8.30 pm. and I have just about done, I even had time to get on my computer. ROLL ON BOSTON