I've been close to sleep on my feet after several long days & nights hotel bound finishing a submission. May be the gateway to a whole new set of experiences. Probably won't. They managed to turn me over very thoroughly at 'The Taj'. I was sent packing twice in a row on the most ludicrous of pretexts 'because they could'. I threatened (loudly) to throw various objects that they had declared to be inadmissable to the hallowed premises over the walls to remove them from their presence as required. I'd have considered actually doing so were it not for the presence of a small circularly collapsing tripod in the batch, which keeps threatening to be useful but has not yet managed to be. Instead I went outside and buried the offending material under a hedge rather than make a secind trip to the ludicrously located baggage office. I will be complaining if I can be bothered getting round to it, not re the inconvenience to me amd my party but that they are making themselves look utterly ludicrous in 'foreihners' eyes by inconsistent and manfestly ludicrous practices. I may not point out that the energy in the 3 AA NimH batteries that I removed from 3 torches to render them admissable paled besides the energy stored in the 6 x LiIon camera batteries that I was carrying. We subsequently did the moonlight Taj viewing as well and the "security theatre" as one fellow visitor termed it had to be seen to be disbelieved. Military men with large guns with large clips of probably live ammunition inserted have generally made me feel vaguely disqueted when encountered in realms foreign afore now, but here they have so far left me essentially unmoved. So far. Nobody has pointed siad devices anywhere except down or away so far, which helps. The sandbagged emplacements at various locations with commanding views of certain access ways (station platform, airport terminal approach, ... have been the most impressive indicators that a serious job is being done. The individuals I have dealt with have been thoroughly polite and pleasant except in the few occasions where they have been obliged to maintain the facade in the face of this loud and noisy tourist when things got past the stage that politeness was the optimum approach. On the return from the Taj night viewing (where an expert appeared to have designed the arrangements to make it close to impossible for people with much less experience or 'gear ' than I to take anything like decent photos) I was offered half a seat by a military man at the vey front of a full bus back to outside the security cordon and Val has a ohoto of he and I wedged into said seat with his arm wrapped around me. All good fun, I guess ;-). Tomorrow Val and I 'hit the town' and give Interpol another crack. On 22 March 2014 22:30, John Gardner wrote: > ... R in Pune... > > Still at large, eh? Interpol's Maharashtra branch office > > must be asleep at the switch... > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .