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| author | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2011-11-10 19:41:03 +0700 |
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| committer | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2011-11-10 19:41:03 +0700 |
| commit | b0eb27cfce0d0038942e852ba884127fca292422 (patch) | |
| tree | fd841764ff0b977a426c8fb9483cd41711d07c92 /blends/asia2011 | |
| parent | 7ef388cd435ab69bd73d403678b7660f021749bd (diff) | |
Add india page.
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diff --git a/blends/asia2011/india.mdwn b/blends/asia2011/india.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..726c043 --- /dev/null +++ b/blends/asia2011/india.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +# Asia 2011 - India + +[[!meta date="2011-10-18"]] +[[!tag debian blog]] + +Arrival in a new country is always exciting. This was my first time +ever to visit India, and although I have heard especially cultural +bits and pieces, I was as usual nowhere near "well" prepared. + +How to fill out the registration forms (surprisingly needed in +addition to the visa already gathered ahead of departure) +when your only known address in India is on the laptop you completely +drained the battery of during the flight? Luckily they tolerated the +"address during stay" to be left blank. + +I got out in the heat of Hyderabad in the late afternoon, got a cab, +and had my host instruct the cab driver +- over the phone via roaming to Denmark - where to drop me off. +After a long ride with cows and beautiful dressed pedestrians +casually crossing the high speed road +and a short pitstop at an ATM, I finally met Pavithran. +Until then we only knew each other from casual online chat. + +(I should later learn that my first impression was quite unusual +- not cows or clothes or chat, but roads capable of driving at high speed!) + +Pavithran checked me into a small hotel and we visited his home. +It was in the middle of being rebuild, so impossible to stay at +as had been our original planed. + +After a few hours of looking at the neighbourhood and talking about +possible events during the week, we decided to cancel the hotel +and instead go visit his parents in Khammam, some 5 hours away by bus... + +This text is part of my [[Asia 2011|asia2011]] scriblings. diff --git a/blends/asia2011/london.mdwn b/blends/asia2011/london.mdwn index 4f16cdb..e509419 100644 --- a/blends/asia2011/london.mdwn +++ b/blends/asia2011/london.mdwn @@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ My flight got delayed, and my one-man "audience" got caught in other duties. :-( Fun to try nevertheless. Also looking back, that crazy attempt to squeeze in a meeting during a 1 hour stop-over -was an indicator of the general pace of the India trip... +was an indicator of the general pace of the [[India]] trip... This text is part of my [[Asia 2011|asia2011]] scriblings. |