Maj (aka Hussain) is finally here!!

I arrived at Hyderabad airport at 7am after getting a domestic flight from Mumbai. It was such a long process from landing in Mumbai to arriving in Hyderabad but I was there and now my long planned trip can start. It starter pretty well with Danny picking me up at 10am (3hrs wait) because they were late coming back from there trip to Visak. Anyway the hustling started soon as I stepped out of the airport, about ten taxi drivers surrounded me asking to drop me off but I stood strong and said no!! After waiting around outside the airport for 3 hours, they picked me up and Krishna was ‘screwing’ because he got fined 100 rupees (£1.20) for not having his seatbelt on. That’s a pretty good deal in my eyes but whatever. It took us about 30 minutes to get to Krishna’s, where I quickly met his family and was whisked away with Danny for lunch at his Uncle’s house. Danny introduced me to the slave that he met a few days ago and it was really weird how he looked part of the family but was paid for his slave duties. Anyway we had rice, with chicken curry and fish curry, which was really nice but me being a numpty, I got a bone lodged in my teeth, which I was trying to get out for 20 minutes but failed. Danny was there laughing at me, while I was getting worried about this bone-very nice of him ey?

After the food, we headed back to Krishna’s to ctach up on some sleep because I was jet lagged and Danny had been on a road trip for the past few days.

We got woken up after about 1-2 hours and was told that Krishna other uncle has prepared us some food at the other side of town. We got introduced to his cousins and his uncles and served us some gorgeous food. Again it was rice but we had prawn curry and chicken curry. This was the first time I had prawn and the curry was gorgeous. After we ate, Me, Danny, Krishna and his cousins and friends sat on the roof just chatting about general life in England. BUT this is when this chat on the roof, turned into a comedy sketch. His uncles Raman, Srivi and Tamu came and joined us and were slightly merry. Srini, the younger uncle was on top form, busting out his English and asking Danny random question but Danny being like he is, he came out with some lyrics and the boys were cackling all night long. Sunil, one of Krisna’s cousins and Srini’s son was ‘boozed’ and was all over Danny. He kept on referring to his uncle as G-O-D and pointing out who his dad was numerous times and then asking for High Five. Funnily enough, this is when I realised, that they were calling me ‘Hussain’ and this is what I was called for the rest of the trip. We were invited for breakfast the next morning and this led us to stay for the night. We was led up by Sunil all ‘boozed’ up, saying that it was his duty to do what we ask and provide us good service. This took him about 30 minutes to tell us this, whilst swaying and asking for high-fives. The good news was that we finally got to bed.