On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:50:19 GMT, "William Black"
wrote:
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>"Martin" wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:20:17 GMT, "William Black"
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>> wrote:
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>>>"grusl" wrote in message
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>>>> "William Black" wrote in message
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>>>>> I find Bombay reasonably hard work. I don't honestly fancy living
>>>>> somewhere where the electric goes off twice a day as well...
>>>>
>>>> It can be hard work ... but still, it's better, er cooler, um more
>>>> interesting, er the food's better than in Delhi
>>>>
>>>Probably less humid than Bombay.
>>>
>>>But I'm back in the UK now anyway. I can't take the heat of summer there
>>>these days and I got sick in the monsoon last year as well.
>>
>> In UK? The Dutch August monsoon last year was pretty grim, the winter one
>> was
>> even worse.
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>Nope, in India :-)
>
>You really should spend June in Bombay some day.
>
>I stood on my mother-in-law's balcony and watched the rain fall, three
>inches in half an hour...
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>I watched the roads fill up and the traffic slowly disappear until all that
>was left on the road was the huge BEST buses ploughing through six inches of
>water on the road.
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>Our pani wallah (bread man) couldn't get to work on his bike because the
>Mahim causeway was under four feet of water, but it didn't matter because
>the local bakery was as well...
I've worked in the tropics too.
--
Martin
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