Sunday is the holiday here, so no yoga, or meditation. You do your own, and go for walks. The staff are incredibly hard working here, and do a fantastic job. Yes, I am really enjoying this place. I met the taxi at 1 PM and he drove me to Coimbatore. It is a scary journey by road, but my driver was very experienced. At night half the vehicles do not have lights, and you descend via hairpin bends, and traffic is heavy always, with many huge busses, motor bikes, lots of trucks. Monkeys abound on the sides of the road. I got to the airport in time, and in an hour or so got to Chennai. The humidity is scary, and way way too hot. The ride to the hotel was long, and it was a cheap hotel as I tried to save money. The hotel room was acceptable but the area not very good. The next morning, after a nice coffee, I met friends from Pondicherry who helped me navigate by foot around Chennai. The first job was to draw money. It took literally hours to achieve: every bank turning me down!! I have no idea why this happened, and not does my bank, whom I have contacted. No money for taxi to return to the airport, no money for food, drink in the heat. I tried to find the Canadian embassy for help but found that they had relocated to another city!! I returned to the hotel, checked out, and had a fiasco over my passport as they thought my visa had expired. ( They looked at my old visa!) At every turn, everything went wrong. At last, I found English pounds in my wallet, exchanged them for rupees. Thank goodness as I could not have flown out of the city!! The trip to the Indian embassy was a waste of time. They were no help at all, and quite unpleasant. So, I will probably return to the UK at the
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