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An English Experience: B&B in Whitby


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Once upon a time in a queue


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Once upon a time in a queue. Just the ...

Once upon a time in a queue

by Selva. Published on 24 Sep 2007:β€œAn Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. At week-ends an Englishman queues up at the bus-stop, travels out to Richmond, queues up for a boat, then queues up for tea, then queues up for ice cream, then joins a few more odd queues just for the sake of the fun of it.”-George Mikes, How to be an Alien (1946) ...

An English Experience: B&B in Whitby

by Selva. Published on 16 July 2007: Whitby, a seaside town in North Yorkshire, is home to Dracula's cave, gothic gulls, and a B&B establishment that charms its guests with a roaring toilet the size of a matchbox, and a suicidal room heater that is colder than CERN's cryogenic systems. To this town, we - I and my wife Ramya - were headed for a vacation. Read on or listen to the audio.


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Crawling On The Clay Ball: Road to Nirvana

by Selva. Published on 25 June 2007. This is the second and final part of Crawling On The Clay Ball. First part is here. A family trip from the south Indian town Namakkal to Bangalore by car where, dogs in copulatory positions cause unintended consequences, Bangalore's bloodstream engulfs mortal coils, and unforgettable lessons on the finer aspects of driving is made public for the first ...

Crawling On The Clayball: Towards a tiny bubble of History and Geography

by Selva. Published on June 14, 2007: Home: a tiny bubble of history and geography trapped on a piece of dirt buffeted by invisible currents, a microscopic mote on a clayball that tumbled on and on in space hoping to keep out of a ludicrously large nuclear furnace; the town called Namakkal on the south of ...

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