Hi, We are in Chennai now, in a very nice Guesthouse. It has a colourful bathroom as you will see from the photo. Although I have missed out on the Enfield Factory Tour there are quite a few out & about on the streets so I will be collecting more photo's for the Club guys to argue over! Tomorrow we plan to visit a couple of noteable local Temples - no photo's of Chennai yet (when we went out for a walk we forgot the camera - and missed a photo of a RE 535 ...

Two spots visited today:- Golconda Fort is located on the outskirts of Hyderabad and was built during the reign of the Qutb Shah kings in the 16th Century. It was, in fact, a water shortage at the Fort that lead to the building of Hyderabad. This is a very imposing group of stone structures spreading across and down a 120 metre granite hill. There are apparently concealed glazed earthen pipes that controlled the water supply - not "well" enough though (nyuk,...

Ignore the photo of the Tiger - I'm pretty sure they were all shot in this region many years ago. To be able to upload this bit I have to attach a photo and as I can't access ours I have to use whatever I can find. We visited Golconda Fort today - one of the better spots to visit around here. Once we can upload some photos you will see what we mean. Second outing was to an area where the tombs of the Qutb Shahi "Kings" are located. Quite interesting also, plus ...

This is our second day in Hyderabad. Day one was spent traveling here from Mumbai via an Air India flight (about one hour) and then a longer period in a Taxi whilst the driver tried to locate our Hotel. First impressions were good as the Airport (an International one) is a beauty - clean, efficient etc. The roads into town were also much better than many we have travelled on in India The Hotel (which will remain annonymous for the moment) has been a huge let-d...

Malabar Hill & Girguam Chowpatty (Chowpatty Beach) Today we bought our breakfast from a vendor set up on the street around the corner from our Hotel. We had noticed him the day before as he had a lot of customers, suggesting he hadn't killed anyone with his food lately. With helpful advice from some of his customers and twenty three rupees later we had a dosa and four or so donut type items together with the usual dipping sauces - one hot and one not. ...