All the bags are finally packed ... and repacked. In just a short while, the journey will begin. This is a pilgrimage of sorts ... to the land where Saint Thomas preached the Word and spread the gospel to neophyte Christians as early as the first century A.D.
In actual fact, Saint Thomas settled in the Indian province of Kerela, located in the southern part of that country, and this pilgrimage will take us to the present-day capital, Delhi. The reason for this trip is business-related for some and pleasure-related for others. The author finds himself, happily, in the latter group.
Times such as these are a strange mixture of excitement and trepidation. Excitement at the prospect of seeing a land that one has never set eyes on before, and trepidation because all that has been read and learned about the second most populated country in the world says that we are in for an adventure of epic proportions.
Whatever comes, it will be part of the adventure, and after all, that is the stuff of holidays for the adventurous types who choose to travel half-way round the globe and back, all in the space of little more than a week. No wonder travellers of this ilk feel like disciples of Phillias Fogg.
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