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No Hazels

When planning any trip one (depending on which one) can get caught up in the research leading up to the expedition.  That too is part of the journey (or the pre journey) and can be fun if you choose to make it so.

To digress - this gives me an idea - the Zen mantra can be tweaked to say - enjoy the research - then the journey and not worry about your destination.

Back to matter at hand - aka - the research for a trip.  With the advent of 24x7 blogs; trip advisors online are dime a dozen and like with any publicly sourced information the consumer needs to be aware of what it is they are consuming.  Some of the posted material may not qualify as information but merely a person's opinion and hilarious at that.

So whilst consuming content recently around making reservations for a five star dinner establishment in India we got bounced around multiple times since the person taking the reservations seemed to not have a set schedule.  The access to this person was through a switch board which was manned by several people depending on when you called and they all had differing opinion on how the reservation had to be made or if a reservation was in fact needed.  The attire was never a matter of discussion or contention having read the reviews and establishment's website.

But the last person making the reservation that spoke with some authority emphasized that gentlemen will not be allowed with slippers or shorts (he did not say if he meant on them or with them) and for ladies there are no rules (sir). 

So a plausible scenario is a gent that is overly coated or trousered accompanying a naked lady.  Permissible per the guidelines.

That said I looked up some reviews online and one gentleman (I think he must be unless he got ideas from the Jenner family) quoted that if you make a reservation for dinner there is no Hazels (hassles is what he whole heartedly meant) and you will have good time. 

As far as transportation goes there was a washout of the Mumbai Pune expressway due to incessant rains and after much deliberation crews were sent to clear debris from highway.  Result - 3 lanes of Mumbai bound highway were THROWN OPEN for traffic.

Now I want this person on my Bowling Team!
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