cliff
I went to l'Espace cafe (2nd time) and had pizza and two beers. It is associated in some way with the hotel that I am staying in - the two people in charge at hotel also seem to be in charge at this place (in charge == they speak french and english in addition to some indian language(s)). One has misapprehended from my passport that my name is 'Cliff' and greets me as such every time he sees me; the other misapprehended from my passport that I live in Sai Gon, though I corrected that over breakfast the other day.
There are many millipedes in this town.
In Russia, and again here, I have found use in the 10^n-(1/inf) method for ATM withdrawls; instead of withdrawing 10000 rupees, instead withdraw 9900 rupees - that way, one gets a wad of change, instead of all stupid large notes. Not so much use in countries such as the UK or US where all the banknotes from an ATM are about the same value, but good where the available banknote range is sometimes from 500units to 10units.
I'm back in coffee.com - they play the same two fucking songs - wake me up when september ends and don't lie. they really are MTV.
My package that I sent in calcutta last week by surface mail, expected to arrive around Christmas time, has allegedly arrived in the UK. The recipient has even correctly described some of the contents so I'm reasonably confident that it really has. CD of photos should be online in a while - vietnam and india pics, I think.
Today I saw 5 groups of tourists (including me) in one place - not seen that many for a week or so.
Last night's dinner (after exhausting my money mostly hence today's ATM trip) was a Rs14/= pile of fried things from a street stand, that turned out to be pretty good - one was half a boiled egg in batter, the other was some black stuff like squished-roach in batter (I hear they are vegetarian in Tamil Nadu (although I am technically not in that state) so hopefully any roach content is purely ambient) - I feel a bit silly standing at a street stall selling 8 different kinds of fried battered object picking out things to eat as if I know what the things are).
Not sure how to get to next place, or even where next place will be. Hmm. Maybe I'll just go to the railway station and see what is on offer.
There are many millipedes in this town.
In Russia, and again here, I have found use in the 10^n-(1/inf) method for ATM withdrawls; instead of withdrawing 10000 rupees, instead withdraw 9900 rupees - that way, one gets a wad of change, instead of all stupid large notes. Not so much use in countries such as the UK or US where all the banknotes from an ATM are about the same value, but good where the available banknote range is sometimes from 500units to 10units.
I'm back in coffee.com - they play the same two fucking songs - wake me up when september ends and don't lie. they really are MTV.
My package that I sent in calcutta last week by surface mail, expected to arrive around Christmas time, has allegedly arrived in the UK. The recipient has even correctly described some of the contents so I'm reasonably confident that it really has. CD of photos should be online in a while - vietnam and india pics, I think.
Today I saw 5 groups of tourists (including me) in one place - not seen that many for a week or so.
Last night's dinner (after exhausting my money mostly hence today's ATM trip) was a Rs14/= pile of fried things from a street stand, that turned out to be pretty good - one was half a boiled egg in batter, the other was some black stuff like squished-roach in batter (I hear they are vegetarian in Tamil Nadu (although I am technically not in that state) so hopefully any roach content is purely ambient) - I feel a bit silly standing at a street stall selling 8 different kinds of fried battered object picking out things to eat as if I know what the things are).
Not sure how to get to next place, or even where next place will be. Hmm. Maybe I'll just go to the railway station and see what is on offer.
posted by Ben Clifford at 15:56 GMT
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