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"Markku Grönroos" wrote in message
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"William Black" kirjoitti
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Get a cab to Andeheri Village (which is actually deep inside the city
suburbs) and you'll end up telling the cab driver exactly how to get
there.

I usually go to Andheri (see the correct spelling) to dine at Subway
Restaurant (19.11893, 72.85120) along MV Road about 200 meters southeast
from Ganpati Temple (also on MV Road). Sometimes I visit the MVLU College
on Azad Road nearby (19.12164, 72.85053).

Hill Rock Society please...

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:53:36 +0100, "William Black"
wrote:

Please note, a very important point:

INDIA ISN'T LIKE ANYWHERE ELSE

I may have only been there a week, but I did notice that:-)


Cheers, Alan, Australia
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http://loraltravel.blogspot.com
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 23:05:29 +0530, "grusl"
wrote:

Oddly, the reverse is true in Delhi: the cabs are insane shafters but if
you're wearing a suit and creep up behind a rick and shout AUTO at them,
they get flustered and rip you off less. I'll get charged say 50 roops for
ride that should cost 30.

The hotel gave me some ideas of the usual prices. I found
the best technique was to have the right rupees in my hand
and, if they seemed to want more, to walk toward the next
autorickshaw or rickshaw. Suddenly the rupees in the hand
became attractive.

But one word no-one understood was "change". Giving a large
note to a driver was assumed to be fare plus tip.


Cheers, Alan, Australia
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http://loraltravel.blogspot.com
Latest: Hong Kong

"Alan S" wrote in message
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But one word no-one understood was "change". Giving a large
note to a driver was assumed to be fare plus tip.

It's the same all over India.

No autorickshaw driver ever has any change.

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

"William Black" wrote in message
...

"Alan S" wrote in message
...

But one word no-one understood was "change". Giving a large
note to a driver was assumed to be fare plus tip.

It's the same all over India.

No autorickshaw driver ever has any change.

--
William Black


The ones in Chennai - by far the worst in India so far - will claim to have
no change even though you can see a wad of 10s and 20s in their shirt
pocket.

Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore