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Since we last spoke our flight dilemma has now been resolved. After several calls back to our travel agent in Leeds (who we must say is ace!!) we have been reinstated on the Lufthansa flight back to the UK on Thursday morning. It took some persuading apparently but eventually Lufthansa gave in and did the right thing, for one minute we were stuck here indefinately!!!
When we haven't been spending time sorting out flights we have visited several sights in Port Blair to get a grip on the history of the place.Yesterday it was the Cellular Jail built in the late 1800's by the Brits to house all the criminals. It was originally a seven spoked building like a wheel but only 3 of these remain. We got to visit the gallows and the watch tower, where you got a good view over the bay here.
Today has been a mixed bag, after lunch we visited what they billed as an aquarium but it had more dead fish in Formaldhyde than they had swimming around in tanks which was weird needless to say it was a short visit!!!
Later on in the afternoon we took the one hour boat ride over to Viper Island and the site of another prison (they love their prisons here!!!) but the island was more like a rubbish dump and we were only allowed 15 minutes there before having to get back on the boat to go back to Port Blair.
It's now nearly 6pm and dark here so it is time for a shower then a few cold Kalyani Black Label beers in this dark bar we have found where everyone stares funny at Mel because she is a woman in a bar, or it could be that because her face is thinner after a year travelling her glasses are now massive on her face and she looks a little clowny!!!!
We have decided to end our trip on a high when we get back to Chennal and have booked ourselves into the 5 star Radisson near the airport for two nights and at a whopping 175 quid a night we are going to take full advantage of everything they offer as it has blown our budget out of the water but you only live once!!!!
Lots of Love
M & M
xx
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