Typical.
The camera is never around when the best photo ops arise. As I was leaving
Patnem today, I saw in someone's front yard, not far from the famous chicken
tree, a giant aloe plant (one of those cactus-like succulent plants with huge
spiky protuberances. This plant was easily a meter and a half wide. But instead
of seeing the usual sharp spikes all around it, someone had stuck eggs on every
spike. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Perhaps there is a hen that
roosts in this aloe plant, related of course to the hen that roosts in the top
of the palm tree.
I couldn't get my camera out fast enough. So instead here's a snap of the lovely
Marlein on Patnem Beach.
On
the train now to Bombay.
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I just checked into the Taj. Not only have I never stayed in a suite like this, I didn't even know such places existed. I just walked through with my mouth open, saying OMG.
I'm sitting on the terrace, watching the sun rise over the sea with the Gateway of India at my elbow.
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