Chennai, UK and Sicily 2017
This is the Golkonda Hotel – where I am staying. In the same group – maybe?
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This typical Indian suburban train reminds me of the Sydney Red Rattlers. The last rattler was retired on 12 Jan 1992.
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This “Marriage Car” was outside a scrap yard. Maybe it is for hire, it looks as if has all its bits.
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This is where my GPS said to cross the railway. As you see I was not the only one.
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I went to a travel show yesterday and this was the manager of the display on Telangana whose capital is Hyderabad. He was most helpfull with information, I visit next Monday. He and the other twoon the stall wanted their photo taken with me. Obvoiusly people with taste!
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I asked the driver (in red) if these chickens were organic but he could not understand my accent so I don’t know.
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This could be Blackpool with a merry-go-round on the beach!
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A paddle anyone – The Bay of Bengal. I put my hand in the water and it was very warm. I forgot my swin trunks though.
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Still could be Blackpool with a tower like that!
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This bijou home could be a candidate for my dream home with 3 satellite dishes but it is too far from the shops.
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Here is the chap hard at work in the belt factory
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The Lions club is world wide as this street attests
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Another photos of the pebble(?) beach. I was rather intested in the text of the sign cautioning people not to bath
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This is probably just what Seagulls on the Gold coast in Queensland looks like.
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Sugar cane for sale in the market. It is crushed up to make a green coloured drink. I have never had the courage to try it. I am not sure what you would catch seeing the rusty state of the roadside crushers.
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Saree heaven
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The pavement decoration is coloured and much more elaborate during the Pongal holiday. Usually it is white chalk.
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The French influence again.
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A very specialised carpenter’s shop.
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A design in progress.
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This is the easiest way to tell a tuk-tuk driver that the price negotiated includes baggage.
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A quick stop for petrol before we get to the coach.
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The Indian centre for crow research.
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The sleeper coach to Hyderabad.
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My home for the 14 hour trip.
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This is where the step ritual was enacted.
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Upper and lower bunks as far as the eye can see.
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Dinner time (for the brave hearted) – The Hotel Galaxy in Puthalapattu.
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You can see that the iron is heated with Charcoal. It might be called a Bar-B-Iron.
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Why we had to cross 17 rail lines here when there was a perfectly good bridge. I don’t mess with Police directions. Old Indian proverb “When in doublt follow man in White shirt”. It worked this time.
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A Sugar cane juice pressing factory.
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We made it – trust a man in a white shirt!
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Birla Mandir Temple
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A monkey walking stick
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I think I have a very Indian look about me – I bet you had difficulty picking me out from the rest of the group.
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You could say and Indian Army knife!
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Photos must be taken
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Louis XIV of France in Ivory
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I just love Ivory!
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I just love Ivory!
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I just love Ivory!
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dr(‘Locnf
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I just love Ivory!
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I just love Ivory!
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I just love Ivory!
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I just love Ivory!
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Another walking stick
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A large car!
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Another car!
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A smaller double deck bus
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An IBM PC car – the screen hinges up to access the drivers seat and sterring wheel
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A Nikon car
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Golconda Fort
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This is the Golkonda Hotel – I am not staying here
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A handsome traveller in Sicily!
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A handsome traveller in Sicily!
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A handsome traveller in Sicily!
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Archimede fountain in Ortigia – Syracuse Old town
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Archimede fountain in Ortigia – Syracuse Old town
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Harbour Ortigia – Syracuse Old town
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Ortigia – Temple of Minerva
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Ortigia – Temple of Minerva
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Villa Romana Casale – Best mosaics in the world!
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Villa Romana Casale – Best mosaics in the world!
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Villa Romana Casale – Best mosaics in the world!
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Villa Romana Casale – Best mosaics in the world!
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Villa Romana Casale – Best mosaics in the world!
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Looted from Sicily to Oxford and return for an exhibition!
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An original Caravaggio
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A street in Ortigia
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Via S. Pietro in Ortigia
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Mount Etna – erupting
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Taormina
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Taormina
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Teatro Greco – Greek amphitheatre – 3rd Century BC
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Waiting for an audition in Teatro Greco – Greek amphitheatre – 3rd Century BC
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Teatro Greco – Greek amphitheatre – 3rd Century BC
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Teatro Greco – Greek amphitheatre – 3rd Century BC
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Taormina
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Sea Bream – we pan fried some for tea, great!
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Ortigia – Harbour
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Syracuse – Greek Theatre
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Syracuse – Greek Theatre. We did not get a part in Toarmina so we are trying closer to home. The audition is at 310BC
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Syracuse – Greek Theatre
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Syracuse – Greek Theatre
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Syracuse – Museum of Archiology
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Syracuse – Museum of Archiology
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Syracuse – Museum of Archiology
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Syracuse – Museum of Archiology
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Syracuse – Museum of Archiology
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Syracuse – Museum of Archiology
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Kayaking & Playing Ball on the harbour
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Ortigia Harbour beach
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Noto a town to the south of Syracuse is noted for its architecture
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Ortigia Market – Barry’s new hat stall
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Our friendly Nut seller
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Array of nuts and spices
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Great fruit and veg
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Tonight’s dinner supplier – either Red Snapper or something completely different!
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Our Blood Orange seller
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Barry’s new hat in Leonardo da Vinci’s mirror invention
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Leonardo da Vinci’s war machine
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Leonardo da Vinci’s war boat – NB Extended balde for cutting enemy sail.
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Ortigia – Street
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Ortigia – Street
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Our apartment – 6 San Pietro Ortigia
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The doorman at the Vestin Park Hotel Chennai
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Not really sure why these chaps are digging a very small hole in what appears to be a bomb site
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I have been hoisted with one of these a few times. It is a Petard which was a medieval small bomb used to blow up gates and walls when breaching fortifications.
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This dish was made by the English Royal Worcester Company and it has on it the crest of the East Indian Company.
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One of the many buildings in Fort St. George
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