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JUNE - AUG 04

Photo Collection of India June 04 - Aug 04

Here is a small selection of assorted photos following our arrival in India.

 

View of Mysore from Chamundi Hills

A Bull! Chamundi Hills

Sugar Cane Juicer yum!

Noddy!

Sai Baba Shipp Spiritual Guru

Jen and a pensive Malc

View from our front balcony

View of small shanty town from our back balcony

View of our lovely pool!!! (recently emptied after the monsoon floods which turned it into a muddy swamp!

"Feed me feed me maam maam, just one Rupee" (one of the many beggars that harrass us on a daily basis)

View of the opposite flat

Jen at work with a birthday bunch from her team!

Malc just beginning to cheer up half hour after our new car purchased in the morning just died in the middle of the city!

Malc, done something right! Jen at Sczechaun Court at The Oberoi Hotel.

Getting slowly drunk, nothing new there!

Mmmm, roast crispy duck with plum sauce!!

The Singing Waiters

Jen got a free birthday cake without either of us asking!

Death by chocolate, looks awful but tasted lovely!!

Mmmm, shall i cut the cake or stick this in Malc!!

Temptation is too great, I'll cut the cake even after 3 courses!

Ahhhh, birthday girl drank a little too much!

Some of Jen's team at the call centre.

Vivek & Malc Chamundi Hills

Jen & Malc @ Chamundi Hills, nr Mysore

Mysore Zoo, 3 Year Old Elephant & Jen!

Vik standing to attention with a coconut?!

Jen & Malc Sampling tender coconut

Malc at one with nature!!

Colourful stuff @ Mysore market!

Mustard seeds being shelled by cars driving over them!!

Malc in a coracle

Vivek in a coracle!

Mr & Mrs Vivek, Vivek & Bruno the Vegetarian Alsation!

Jen trying to look clever and world wise at Golden Palms

Malc showing off freshly manicured hands at Golden Palms

Just in case you couldn't see close enough on the last picture!

Jen considering making all the water jump out of the pool, Golden Palms

Malc's teeth before polishing and treatment, awful!

Jen attempting to look important, business like and slim!!!

Malcs teeth after the first stage of treatment, looking slightly better!

Brendan, a complete lunatic from Cheltenham.

Malc with Zoe, another nutter from Cheltenham!

Malc, Brendan and Gemma from Bristol, Ooh Aargh!!

Zoe, doing her best not to look mad!

A drunken camera moment, Malc and Jen at Spinn Nightclub

Ditto

A pair of west country tarts at Spinn Club

One of Malc's infamous pensive moments!

Brendans arse next to a sleeping security guard, nice!!

Malc driving the rickshaw home, with a very nervous driver!

Malc clearly too tall to drive a rickshaw!

Malc and rickshaw driver with the one that he drove!

Zoe and Brendan in Guzzlers

Jen after perhaps one too many!

2 too many then!

Oh dear, slightly embarassing!!

Zoe and Brendan again, looking extremely ugly!

Jen and Vivek

Jen and Tintu

Vivek with Lisa, reckon your in there mate!

Zoe with her "seductive barmaid" look!!

Mmmm, how people can let themselves down in a matter of seconds!

Jen driving a rickshaw!

Keep your eyes on the damn road woman!

Getting ready for go karting with a little Dutch courage

Zoe completely soaked after taking an extra half hour to do her 10 laps, first attempt at driving, bless!!!

A motorcyclist complete with passenger and car windscreen, obviously!

Mano, the son of our maid!

Jen and Mano

Malc and Mano

Dancing bear at Utter Pradesh border, very cruel, should be banned!

This guy actually wanted me to pay to take this photo, told him where to stick it and how cruel he was!

Don't remember the name of this place but was on way to Taj Mahal

Richard in front of Taj Mahal gate, the white marble you can see through the entrance is the Taj Mahal.

Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal pic spoiled by two white hooligans!

Sat in Diana's seat, named after a beautiful picture taken of Princess Diana sitting here!

One of the mosques to the left of Taj Mahal

View of river from Taj Mahal

One of the 4 towers, they all lean out at 2 degrees so they would fall away from Taj Mahal in the event of an earthquake!

Intricate designs in white marble. 20 thousand workers toook 22 years to construct this and the other buildings surrounding it!

The mosque to the other side, everything about the whole estate is completely symetrical, the trees and flowers, everything!

Notice how Malc's head fits perfectly into Taj gate.

Another angle of the Taj Mahal!

Camels and carts awaiting to take visitors to Taj Mahal. No motor vehicles allowed near to prevent pollution.

Near the Taj Mahal, marble carvers, apparently descendants of the original carvers of Taj Mahal.

Filing the intricate inlay flowers for marble tables!

Malc stood for 2 hours in pouring rain outside embassy in Delhi.