Snooty Ooty (or otty if u r Fi)

Former capital of the madras presidency. There are RAJ reminders everywhere, notably the terraced botanical gardens, the english public schools.

Highlights of this Old British Raj Hill Station

• Jimbo's shoe repairs
• Madras horse racing club - virtual horse racing from Mumbai
• bazaars to buy Fi pressies
• Snooker was invented here, but the place was closed down!
• Old English street names such as Greenbanks, Glenmoran, Windermere etc.
• Pedallo on smelly lake in rain
• party animals at 'Jolly World' theme park (Indian's version of Alton Towers)
• New years day trek throu tribal villages in hills, really good hangover cure, shame Jim cannot put his trousers on the right way (quote from Jim ' I wondered why I couldn't walk proberley, knees in the wrong place')

We decided to leave to leave after new year as food was limited to 4 items: any other item was served cold. We learned this mistake after we walked out of 5 resturants in the same evening.

Fi