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Agra 15.2.10 Nikki
Today the new group caught the train (the one that was cancelled a month ago) with no delays and I revisited Agra Fort and the Taj for the third time!
It must have been 15 degrees warmer than last time and the sky was (sorry Jo) clear.
We had a bizarre dinner in a revolving restaurant with ferocious A/C surrounded by overexcited school children (from Bundi apparently!) who were here on a school trip. Thank goodness I wasn't responsible for them, they were high as kites!
Off to Chanderi tomorrow which is a small village....can't wait.
Big excitement! As soon as I posted the above, deafening music began to blare from the front courtyard of the hotel. It was a wedding with the groom on his white horse in traditional dress. Will post some pictues later but almost all are obscured by ladies in bejewelled saris or bandsmen and other curious onlookers. It was a totally unexpected and colourful end to the night!
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Claire Hi ya, bet the school trip group didn't need a risk assessment!! Thank G** it's half term ;-) C x
Kate It's half term. Time to put aside thoughts of wobbly teeth, squared paper and lumpy custard. Time to hang out with adults who are not on playground duty, devouring all sweets that were confiscated last term, reading existential treatise and catching up with news from India. So... where is Jo? Never mind. Nikki's continued exposure to the romance of the Indian Wedding Season has provided a comedic contrast with Valentine's Day in the Home Counties. No talking, so no noise, nothing colourful except the language of the couple having a domestic by the biffa bins, and the only thing resembling a horse was a girl in a pashmina in All Bar One.
Lindsey I was in that restaurant! I think I asked the rather silly question "are the walls moving?!" to be told that it was just the floor that moves (of course!!!). I think we had a bottle of Indian Merlot which may account for the general misunderstanding of the dynamics involved. Ok Nikki it didn't. It was me not the Merlot! The wedding sounds wonderful and I agree, much nicer than the proliferation of squishy laminate pink and red heart shapes in every single retailer - (key cutters? Shoe shops?) - now a white horse trotting past the Carphone Warehouse.. that WOULD have been romantic....