6 October
Uneventful flight to and arrival in Madras, and then... abandonment! Apparently someone at the travel agency forgot to tell someone at the tour company that we would be on a flight much earlier than anyone else in the group. Arrived at 3:30pm, not expected by Mr Mahesh the tour leader till 10:00pm. Ah, India! Stood waiting, waiting, waiting till 4:30pm, fending off offers of taxi rides, till a kindly airport security guard offered that we use his mobile phone to make some calls. There was an implied suggestion and mention of call charges so I complied with the connotation and handed over 100 rupees. The upshot of the phone calls was... Best you catch a taxi to the hotel!
Ah well, made it one one piece, didn't get murdered and had dinner (in the hotel's Chinese restaurant) without developing diarrhea; it's early days though.
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