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In August, before the 2016 elections, Jennifer interviewed people of different countries about their perception of America, Americans, and American politics. How do Indians view the United States (as of fall 2016)? Jay works in technology in Chennai, India and some of his views on Americans will probably surprise you. ...
The sounds here are intoxicating. Downstairs (or down the hall, I can’t tell) I can hear the sounds of drums and flutes playing vibrantly, and the murmur of many people’s voices. Occasionally, I’ll hear a car horn from outside going, wee-o-wee-o-wee-o. And then a bird cooing in the distance. And people shouting to each other from across the courtyard down on the bottom level of the apartment complex. The ...
We'd traveled primarily in northern India before going to Chennai in the south. In all of the cities we'd seen in northern India, the presence of other people, weird traffic patterns, cows, and trash made jogging outside impossible. But in Chennai, we stayed at an apartment complex with a very clean parking garage around which we jogged each morning. ...
While waiting at 5am for a taxi to take us to the Egmore train station in Chennai for our trip to Pondicherry, we interacted with a thin (but sweet) black puppy outside our vacation rental.Related Posts:Pondicherry India Tourism: Lost in Translation with John (video)Pondicherry India Tourism: Chennai to Pondicherry Train (video)Pondicherry India Tourism: Auroville (video)Chennai, India ...
We didn't even notice that men and women were segregated on different sides of the bus in Chennai. When we first boarded, we stood, but when it was time to take our seats, John sat on the wrong side.
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On intracity Indian buses in Chennai, the women sit on one side and the men on the other. Since there weren't any seats on the women's side of the bus, Lydi and I stood. There was room on the men's side, so John got to sit while he took this video.We walked about halfway from our vacation rental in Chennai to the Kapaleeswarar Temple on the other side of the city as our outing on this day.
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John got a front row seat on this bus in Chennai, India where he was able to get a good view of the Indian traffic and some excellent footage...
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Taking a bus in Chennai, India is easy. Bus stops are easy to identify, though each one looks a little different from the next. Most are located under an awning of some kind. Some have benches, some do not.
It can get pretty hot on the bus in the middle of the day when it fills to capacity, but that shouldn’t discourage you. The windows and doors remain open and so there’s usually a bit ...
It can get pretty hot on the bus in the middle of the day when it fills to capacity, but that shouldn’t discourage you. The windows and doors remain open and so there’s usually a bit ...
For us, as people who earn most of our living online, Internet availability is extremely important when we travel abroad. We worried about electrical outages in Chennai because we’d spent 6 weeks in Kathmandu, Nepal two years prior dealing with them every day for 6 to 8 hours each day. But during our two weeks in Chennai at an AirBnB vacation rental, there were only about 8 outages, usually in the early ...
Our vacation rental in Chennai is fully equipped with all the latest amenities. It has a reverse osmosis water purification system. The furnishings are comfortable. We have air conditioning throughout. The pillows are acceptably soft, but not too soft. And there’s a washer and a dryer. But one of the things it doesn’t have is hot water. Which means that every day, I take a cold shower.
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Every now and then, I feel the world turning under my feet and I go off balance; something nameless seems terribly wrong. It’s not an earthquake though. No--even though John and Lydi feel it too. It feels like I’m on a connection that’s too slow and my eyes are dropping frames. My body moves, but my mind lingers behind. But it’s nothing… just jetlag.
I remember driving through olive ...
I remember driving through olive ...