[16.09.2009] My husband and I stayed at the Radission Chennai for a few days whilst I was working at my employer's local office in the St Thomas Mount area of the city. My husband had come along because we were going to start a 2 week tour of the south of India a few days later. This hotel was the one that the company always chose for international visitors because the cost was not too shocking and the facilities were of a really good standard and, of course in a country where even short distances can take a long time to travel at peak times, the location was convenient for the office. Some of my colleague [mehr]

[21.08.2009] I've never really been a beach-lover. Admittedly my long-held ambition to one day retire by the sea with a couple of dogs could suggest otherwise, but that's not about loving beaches, it's about loving the sea. I can't abide all that sand in your food, hair, clothes and baggage. And parading my gravity-battered flesh for the derision of strangers is no picnic either. So if someone says 'Do you want to go to the beach?' they'll do well to get more than a grudging grunt from me. One place where I found my kind of beach was in Chennai in Tamil Nadu, southern India. Before going to the south of [mehr]