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October 7, 2007

India

Filed under: Personal — Chris @ 5:55 pm

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If a trip to India isn’t worthy of a blog entry on hokemon.com, then nothing is.

I’ve just come back from a business trip of 10 days or so in India. It’s been a while since I was last overseas, so it felt pretty good to be stretching my wings again. I also quickly remembered how great it is to get back home though!

After fending off snide remarks about knocking us out of the T20 World Cup, India winning the tournament on our first day there proved to be an excellent icebreaker. I just wonder where Yuvraj (Six-Six) Singh is going to be driving his prize Porsche!

Things went pretty well there (besides being loaded on the wrong plane at Calcutta), and after knocking off early on our last day we were taken around Cuttack, allegedly one of the oldest cities in India (>1000 years). The Mahindra was pretty full though, so one of the guys took me there on the back of his motorbike. That’s the way to get around, I tell you! When EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING has right of way, and potholes are more common than tar, you NEED something maneuverable! It certainly gave me the opportunity to experience India from the locals’ perspective.

Once we got to Cuttack, Sanjeev dropped his bike off at his home and we all squeezed into the Bolero. It felt like something straight out of an India Jones movie, being chauffeured around in a huge car with bicyles and pedestrians, cows and dogs all vying for passage through the tiny streets.

They then took us on a shopping spree, including the local Reebok store so Ashley could pick up a premium Kashmir Willow bat for his brother. Shopping was fun, but Ash and I were getting a bit apprehensive about the ever diminishing time before our plane was due to take off, but after eventually having to be bit forceful we got taken to the airport and made it with a few minutes to spare.

India was full of new experiences, including sharing a Tata Indica with five other adult males, and I now have newfound respect for our roads. The food was pretty good, and not too spicy, which was my biggest fear when heading over there in the first place. Nice place, but like I said at the beginning, good to be back.

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