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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ course was set for a 2½ month journey with [Debian Pure Blends][] as main
 theme:
 
  1. England: [[London]]
- 1. India: Khammam, Hyderabad, Mangaluru, Bengaluru
+ 1. [[India]]: Khammam, Hyderabad, Mangaluru, Bengaluru
  1. Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho
  1. Thailand: Bangkok
  1. Malaysia: Putrajaya
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+# 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.
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@@ -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.