Collection of birds in decorative cages in the reception of the Peace Park Hotel, they tweet until the early hours,. Must send himself to put a cover over them at bedtime!
Our laundry arrived back this morning 2 shirts and some trousers for £1.35 wrapped up in two sheets of the Hindu Times. Didn't throw this away, locals use it for another purpose!
We hired an English speaking slow driving taxi for a tour of the city. Today is a Hindu Festival day and there were flowers strewn along the roads, Hindu's singing and firecrackers going off. We went to the local temple and removed our shoes to go in. We followed the other visitors, no other white people just us two.
In the centre of the Astalashmi temple they all sat down to wait for their lunch to be served to them at no cost. We didn't stay for lunch, we carried on our walk around, himself was approached by the Swami who painted his forehead with red clay. I passed on this one. 
The taxi drivers are determined to make better people out of us. This time it was a Roman Catholic Church and as luck would have it there was a film crew recording. We stuck out like a sore thumb, no wonder they asked us to be movie stars for the day. Himself said a few words on behalf of the people of the "Cotswolds" in England. We wandered off to the Fort of St George, but it was another museum, and to be honest, we were getting hungry, so gave it a flying visit
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The driver took us to Chennai Egmore Station which is a huge place and showed us to a cafe across the road. It was not quite what we expected but we ordered a vegetarian Businessmen's Chennai Lunch costing £1.10 each. It comprised of Tomato Soup (with Chilli), Popadom & Pickles, then the vegetable thali that is in the picture, followed by sweet tapioca & ice cream. It was great! Lunchtime nirvana and fab sweets!
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