Chillout at Chennai - Part 2
Written by Sampath on July 1, 2008 – 10:01 am -[Continued from previous post…]
….I stopped for an instant, as Ben ‘Iqbal’ Johnson whizzed past me to finish the race with a smirk on his face. The waving man walked towards me looking extremely puzzled, and asked in a surprised tone: ‘What are you doing here? I thought you went to Mumbai yesterday?..’. This time it was my turn to be perplexed, as I tried to think if I was acquainted to this man in anyway. Nopes. It was the first time I was seeing him, but he seemed to know me pretty well. The train’s Siren jerked me out of my thoughts, and I blabbered something to him while I got back to my sprint to board the train. Maybe he knows one of the six other unfortunate souls on Earth who has a face similar to mine.
We’d booked ourselves on 2nd class to feel the life around us (pssst: to save on travel budget). The 15 hour train ride went off well, with us not sparing any of those tea/snack vendors who came our way. Dot 5.30 AM the next day, 2 well fed (stuffed) souls stepped out onto the Chennai Central platform. Balaji (our colleague in Chennai) took us straight to the ‘budget’ hotel in T Nagar. Expecting too see a Orchid / Gold Finch kinda budget hotel, we were in for a surprise. Read the rest of this entry »
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