Friday 21 March 2014

More from India

Here are a few more:

This was lunch one day, served up on a banana leaf.


The only tiger we encountered, on the roof above our hotel room.

A rather nice bee in the palace garden at Mysore:

 Amazing what you can fit on a bike:

This brought to mind the Duke of Edinburgh's comment some years ago about being "put together by an Indian"!

Those of you who received a postcard might like to see where it was posted! It looked more like a litter bin or a nest box.

A few birds: the house crows and kites were everywhere, scavenging anything they could find.


terns and a beeeater making friends.
 

Thursday 20 March 2014

Indian idiosyncrasies

We took over a thousand photos on this trip and have printed out quite a few to show you. We also have some movies! 
Here are a few things that tickled us but which we have not printed.



Signs on the train; we loved the illustrations!

Our guide joked "so much henna you die!"
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Auto rickshaws are full of wise remarks!