The Green Palace of Mysore

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When in Mysore we stay at the Green Palace Hotel. The GP is a stately pile, evidently built by the Maharaja for one of his sisters.  We think it may have been a less-favoured sister as the place, glorious though it is, is, (in Mysore Maharaja terms) more of a hunting lodge, albeit a grand hunting lodge.

The place was eventually sold by the sister and became the HQ of Premier Studios, a major film making company.  Enormous sound stages were built on the adjacent acreage and the stars and crew would stay in the GP.  Our suite actually had a bath !  We assume that various stars and starlets would have frolicked therein, we certainly did.  The sound stages, alas, burnt down some decades ago and the GP went into decline until it was rescued, renovated and set up to provide employment for local tribal people.

They have the best coffee and cakes in India& and also an extraordinary tapestry depicting, believe it or not, the wreck of The Titanic.

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  2. It IS all more than a bit gobsmacking. We’ve just arrived in Madurai which is even more incredible than everywhere else, unbelievably photogenic, and we’ve only been in the back streets and are yet to enter the legendary temple. Love and kisses to you Eleanor and a wonderful and magical 2019. k&b xxxxx

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Kristen and Billy sprang from the loins of 4 heroic ancestors. They roamed the Earth for an Age, playing the zither, predicting earthquakes, calling bingo games, eating sponge cakes, and watching old movies on tv. They was schooled by the Dominicans and the Christian Brothers, what taught them their letters and scribbling skills. So, rudely equipped, and with a missal full of hymns in their hearts they stepped forth into the world. Kristen and Billy tried to keep the hippy flame alive as they strove and stumbled through work, like Kane from Kung-Fu crossed with Pollyanna, finding both good and evil in the hearts of men, ( but mainly good). They filled out time sheets and instead of villains punched the clock over and over (and over) again. Finally, the dark clouds parted, the sun shone through, and they stopped punching and started living. Now they are wide eyed, clickety hipped, post career dislocated hippies looking to get lost in a big wide world.