I woke Saturday with a text from Mark telling about his check in timings. Feeling a little jealous in a way as he was home to see is family.
Sat and watched the Chinese Grand Prix qualifing and then decided to go for a wander and do a little shopping. We had been shown a shopping mall that was about a mile down the road, this seemed easier than trying to find my way to the centre of Bangalore. And more finding m way back.
We had spent the first week wrapped up in a bubble really. Driven from hotel to office and back. Didn't really allow us to see what was outside. As I walked down the road I passed things you could never think of in this time and age. Concrete pipes along the side of the road, I guess ready for some construction work, were being lived in. People getting their water from taps in the street. Storm drains that seemed to smell like open sewers and something that was worlds apart from they way we had been living while we had been here.
The two pictures are views on different sides of the streets
It does amaze me that this country is really two countries in one. The haves and have nots. And when you see the work that has been completed and these huge modern structures it seems sad to see how others live. India is about to place a module on the moon but they have people living in these squalid conditions!A strange thing that is on the streets everyday is the cows. Randomly wandering the streets, did ask how and what they ate seeing I always thought cows ate grass and lots of it.
Deciding to not walk back to the hotel in the very warm and close climate I decided to take my life in my hands and get back by auto-risckshaw. Just think of a shopping trolley wit wheels and you are not too far wrong.
The file is a little large and if I can find a way of getting it converted to something smaller I will. But it is well worth viewing and the onl way I can show the traffic and it's unique qualities.
Sunday as been a day of doing nothing, watching the Grand Prix followed by lunch of take out Domino's pizza and then writing this. This time next week I will be at Wembley Stadium watching a live NFL match. Two worlds so far apart.
1 comment:
Good to see you managed to get out today! Living dangerously on the way back, even if the roads were the quietest I've seen them (apart from the trips to/ from the airport at too-early o'clock in the morning)
I probably shouldn't have been surprised to find out there were people living in those pipes by the road, but I was.
That smell from the drains was pretty pervasive the whole time we were out there.
The UK has been cold and grey today. I think its going to take a good couple of days to get used to normal bed and meal times again.
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