This morning our hosts made me an Indian breakfast ... David opted to stick with eggs and toast. My breakfast dish was a curried potato/pepper gravy one with roti breads. I managed to eat it with my fingers without making too much of a mess and very nice it was too.
The only plan we had for today was to avoid temples - they're always much busier at weekends and David gets fed up taking his shoes off to enter them.
We decided to walk along the back streets to South Street Cemetery.
First a few street scene photos near our apartment
Ambassador taxis
Street food stalls
Improvised washing line
Sexual Equality
With a chai stop en route of course
These little terracotta drinking pots are smashed in a bin after use so aren't washed up in 'dubious' water. We usually head for chai stalls that use these or throw away paper cups
The South Park Street Cemetery is fascinating and relatively well tended but its heartbreaking seeing how young many of these English men and women were when they died.
The cemetery was built in 1767 for the early British pioneers of the East India Company. It is a leafy park filled with mossy mausoleums, obelisks and stone cupolas and is the resting place of soldiers, sailors, civil servants, traders and their wives and children who came to India for adventure and to build a good future for themselves but succumbed to disease and shipwrecks.
A lot of the inscriptions aren't legible but those which we could read told a sad tale.
We stumbled upon an intriguing inscription on one - I Googled it and found a little more information so have made it a separate post (see Elizabeth Jane Barwell)
The only plan we had for today was to avoid temples - they're always much busier at weekends and David gets fed up taking his shoes off to enter them.
We decided to walk along the back streets to South Street Cemetery.
First a few street scene photos near our apartment
Ambassador taxis
Street food stalls
Improvised washing line
Sexual Equality
With a chai stop en route of course
These little terracotta drinking pots are smashed in a bin after use so aren't washed up in 'dubious' water. We usually head for chai stalls that use these or throw away paper cups
The South Park Street Cemetery is fascinating and relatively well tended but its heartbreaking seeing how young many of these English men and women were when they died.
The cemetery was built in 1767 for the early British pioneers of the East India Company. It is a leafy park filled with mossy mausoleums, obelisks and stone cupolas and is the resting place of soldiers, sailors, civil servants, traders and their wives and children who came to India for adventure and to build a good future for themselves but succumbed to disease and shipwrecks.
A lot of the inscriptions aren't legible but those which we could read told a sad tale.
We stumbled upon an intriguing inscription on one - I Googled it and found a little more information so have made it a separate post (see Elizabeth Jane Barwell)
What a place, reminds me of Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris but with exotic foliage.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the Parisian cemetery Di, but this was pretty amazing. Very steamy and I've got lots of bites (didn't expect it to be so 'jungle' like and didn't take protection). We spent a good couple of hours there
ReplyDeleteOscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, Isadora Duncan, Jim Morrison and Chopin amongst others are buried there.
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