Just a quick message to tell everyone where we are incase you have seen the news-as there have been some bomb blasts in Delhi. Just arrived in Delhi after a 30 hour train journey from Goa and saw the news on the TV as we were checking in. There was some bombs in Connaught place the shopping area and there may have been one at the train station, but not the one we came in on. So anyway, we are OK and will be stepping out carefully in the next few days.
Spent the 30 hours on the train having very interesting conversations with a retired Indian Orthodontist who's grandfather was a brigadier and his son's are studying engineering in America. He gave us a real insight into India never mind our mouths, chuckle.
We also had the pleasure of a pleasant young English man from Bristol who had just given up 6 years of being a Buddhist monk in Thailand and Australia. Being a monk almost starved him to death due to the fact that they were only allowed one meal a day! He also had previously gone on a package trip! from Delhi to Kashmir!!!!!! Where he was held to ransom with death threats until he paid for another package tour. He escaped by hiring a taxi at 5am over the mountains for a 2 day journey reaching 5000 metres (the height of Everest base camp!)!!!!! Bless him, how on earth he got roped into it! He is flying home in 2 days and I don't think he'll be returning! God bless him.
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Well have you two been busy, I told you to take a movie camera with you ... tell you what you should have a movie crew with you !!! make good television (what's that).
Your mate Clive
P.S. Am a free man (yipee)
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