Good bye Sri Lanka...hello India
Monday, May 1, 2006 at 01:45AM Deb and I said good bye to Sri Lanka yesterday morning. I have been trying to post photos of the work we did there, but you can view it at www.tripca.org as posting to the blog seems to be a problem right now.
We arrived in Trivandrum yesterday morning...and our hotel which is setting us back about $10/night (which is a little expensive actually) has a tv with several movie channels. So instead of exploring which would have been too much work in this heat, we plunked ourselves down and watched 4 hours of tv. How heavenly is that? Now don't go thinking we are staying at the ritz. Our room might have a tv, but it doesn't have sheets on the bed, towels or toilet paper. It is pretty basic. My friend Ben in Thailand sent us photos of his new house there and Deb and I almost went right out to teh airport and booked our ticket there because his place looks so nice.
What can I tell you about Trivandrum other than it is HOT, busy, and dirty. Not the most appealing discription I am sure but both Deb and I are holding back judgement on it until we have had the chance to explore it a little more this afternoon. First order of business is to get our Indian cell phone working, check out the train station and then do some sight seeing.
We are both craving some good home cooked meals right now. The last thing I want is another plate of rice. But while we are in southern india I am not sure we will find much else. So as you all sit there eating spaghetti, pizza, steak...heck I would even take a burger; think of us...eating more curry.
Reader Comments (2)
i am so wonderfully jealous of you in india - the sri lankin stories sound wonderful - can hardly believe it is going to be close to a year before I can see you and all the pics.
You rock girl - twice for that matter -
by the way the STD ISD ( phone stations) are all over India and the price to call Canada is relatively cheap - Don't know how they do it, but...
FYI -
If you are in Delhi, let me know and I will give you a contact there of friends of ours - Actually they are family to a friend of ours here and they may be ver happy to host you for a visit/meal ... let me know.
love you bunches gerl - hugs to Deb...
Cori
ooops, also, if you go to mumbai, ( bombay) let me kow and I too will give you a contact of a really cute (music manager for a popular radio station) and his absolutely lovey elegant mother. We met them while in Rajisthan - we both stayed at the same fort - and Alice and I had more lovley converstations with them in 3 days than we had with our travel mates the whole time we were with them.
hugs again
and keep drinking bottled water - (and massalla chai of course)
Cori