Although the priority of my trip to India was to train the team, the secondary priority was to get to know all of them and get them working together as best I could. Half my suitcase was filled with scissors, paint, pens, brushes, sellotape and anything crafty I could get my hands on really so that they could all create websites without a computer in site. I even flat packed my own cardboard website so that it would fit in my case!

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After a very stressful 2 weeks my time here has come to an end. Managed to get home at a sensible enough time to capture the sunset as viewed from my hotel window…

It was either this or a picture of a diseased cow in the middle of the road. This is a little more picturesque…

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Today is the penultimate day of my stay and I cannot wait to get home. I left slightly early from the office because it was all starting to get a bit much. Unfortunately my driver wasn’t available so I was forced to go to the travel office to get another form of transport. Usually this would be easy, here it was not.

Me: “Please could you get me a car to go back to my hotel”
Office: “What do you mean?”
Me: “a car, to go back to the hotel, this is the travel office right?”

After much debate over cars, one turns up, no seat belts, completely dreadful state. Ended up going much to fast through the city on the wrong side of the road in a completely unnecessary way.

Then at the hotel the driver asks for cash and refuses to give me a receipt. I then walk into the hotel, he follows me, speaking gibberish. I then escape to the hotel room, while the hotel staff phone me to try and sort it out. As I write they are in the process of getting rid of him.

Sometimes there really is no escape in this place. So there we go….the seconds cannot pass fast enough.

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Maybe it was because I have been suffering a crushing headache for the past 24 hours, but I did seem to be subconsciously on the look out for Pharmacies and other medicinal drug selling outlets. The one pictured is a prime example of common sense. Why shouldn’t all drug related resellers end their signage with “ists”. I quite like the general wreckage around the edge of this photo.