indien2007

When we first saw this line of Indians waiting to buy ticktes (50 rupies each) we didn't understand that this was just a very short part of the line. The actual line was circling under a big roof with 5 looong rows. The Swedish staff that were there to organize the buses to the harbour said they never expected so many people. Thousands of patient interested Indians. We placed ourselves in the end and waited in the hot sun for several hours.

Some people tried to sneek in before us in the line and succeeded, since they found it to boring to wait. They  didn't understand why we, who are Swedish, acceped to wait so long. We replied that we have no rights to go before anyone else. Just to make them feel a bit bad.. well it didn't help. When we finally reached the office to buy our ticktes they said it was only possible to buy for the Monday showing, no more visitors today..

Since we had been sitting 4 hours in the bus to come to Chennai and also had 4 hours back, a very nice Swedish prince called Emanuel helped us to get tickets and made us smoothly get on board Gotheborg.
So I won't really call it to use our Swedish identity, more that it would have been such a failure if we couldnt get to finally see it and the Swedish staff understood our situation.

/Mia