Kieran:
We arrived in Bangalore airport by 2 o'clock today, having flown from Cochin. The weather as always when we travel is overcast, wet and cold. The worst part though is that we have to wait until 4.00 tomorrow morning for our flight home.
But to save money and bother, we're not going to check into a hotel. Instead we've taken to the streets of Bangalore for the evening. We've been exploring the MG Road area, and it all seems strangely western. Clean streets, good roads, nice restaurants and shops, you wouldn't believe we were in India if it weren't for the hundreds of auto-rickshaws lined up at the side of the road and all trendy Indians walking the streets.
This is the British planned part of the city and also the most affluent but I'm sure you wouldn't have to go far to find "real" India again.We're going to hang out here until everything closes (Bangalore is an early to bed city) at 11.00 and then head back to the airport to wait around for the last 4 hrs.
Nick:
Hey folks, in Bangalore right now on Mahatma Gandhi road, the centre of it all! It's quite clean and quiet, oddly, expected it to be mayhem as usual.
We've got our big bags on us, as they won't look after them for us at the airport for security reasons... Security is nuts at that airport, we almost couldn't leave once we'd gone into departures, the automatic doors only work one way. They let us go once we explained our flight wasn't until tomorrow morning! Luckily it's a really comfy airport and has a good coffee shop.
We arrived in Bangalore airport by 2 o'clock today, having flown from Cochin. The weather as always when we travel is overcast, wet and cold. The worst part though is that we have to wait until 4.00 tomorrow morning for our flight home.
But to save money and bother, we're not going to check into a hotel. Instead we've taken to the streets of Bangalore for the evening. We've been exploring the MG Road area, and it all seems strangely western. Clean streets, good roads, nice restaurants and shops, you wouldn't believe we were in India if it weren't for the hundreds of auto-rickshaws lined up at the side of the road and all trendy Indians walking the streets.
This is the British planned part of the city and also the most affluent but I'm sure you wouldn't have to go far to find "real" India again.We're going to hang out here until everything closes (Bangalore is an early to bed city) at 11.00 and then head back to the airport to wait around for the last 4 hrs.
Nick:
Hey folks, in Bangalore right now on Mahatma Gandhi road, the centre of it all! It's quite clean and quiet, oddly, expected it to be mayhem as usual.
We've got our big bags on us, as they won't look after them for us at the airport for security reasons... Security is nuts at that airport, we almost couldn't leave once we'd gone into departures, the automatic doors only work one way. They let us go once we explained our flight wasn't until tomorrow morning! Luckily it's a really comfy airport and has a good coffee shop.
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