The Colombo-Doha flight drops us off nowhere near the terminal. We have to physically walk down the airplane and into the dry heat of Qatar. I watch the business-class people drive away in their own half-empty bus, and then wait for the cattle car. We drive for a long time through the tarmac, hanging from straps. Like twenty minutes. Maybe ...
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Soon after breakfast at that desert camp near Jaisalmer, Jaishu returned and we drove back to the hotel, where I had a quiet day in my room, reading and working on the internet. But in the evening I was up on the terrace again, for beer and dinner, and then had to make sure Jaishu and the car would be ...
En route to the desert The hotel had arranged for a car to be driven by yet another of the ubiquitous waiters, this one I think the seniormost, called Jaishu. First we went to the Amar Sagar lake, which did not however have much water in it now. Next to it was an old Jain temple, which was being restored, ...
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After Gelati was the Motsameta Monastery which, our final stop after that grand complex, was on a much smaller scale. Since there was a short walk to it Vasantha stayed back in the car. But despite my by now aching feet I enjoyed the walk through a tranquil forest, the entrance to the complex over a sort of drawbridge, and ...
India wicket-keeper/batter Rishabh Pant has been cleared of serious injury after a car accident on early Friday (30th December) morning. The 25-year-old was reportedly driving from his residence in Roorkee to New Delhi, when his vehicle hit a road divider at around 5:15am. Eye-witnesses claim Pant’s car caught fire, though he was able to escape, albeit with injuries to his ...
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I note here hazards of travel without Kithsiri, who was an excellent mechanic. When the car broke down with Jayantha driving I had recourse to towing and a lorry, but all that did allow me to spend a night with my aunt Rupa, in her lovely old house at Bataduwa, something I have not regrettably done since. And I note ...
This deals with my first overnight journey with Kithsiri and then preparations for a trip abroad. And then there was a long journey to the north with another Codipilly driver. South and North It was the next morning that my brother was rude about my father with regard to his car, so after that, on the few occasions on which ...
Former international umpire Rudi Koertzen passed away in a car crash on Tuesday in South Africa. Koertzen, 73, was on his way back home from Cape Town after a weekend of golf when the fatal accident happened. Three others were also killed in the crash in the early morning hours in Riversdale. Koertzen, who became an umpire in 1981, made ...
