{"id":411,"date":"2002-08-30T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-30T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/411"},"modified":"2002-08-30T23:54:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-30T18:24:00","slug":"411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/411\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Travelogue Part 2: August Chennai<\/h3>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what it is, but there&#8217;s something about Chennai in August. Not summer, not monsoon, not winter (he he I gotta be kidding!). But some vague haziness about the town, throw in a shower here and a shower there, it makes the weirdness complete. I love walking along the Cenotaph lane, where some consulates and corporate guest houses are there. What I loved most this time was the beer sessions in Mowbray&#8217;s Inn; they&#8217;ve made that conference hall in the basement into a bar, so you have 2 bars in a floor now. The new bar has a life-size TV screen. Three of us had a great time there. The beer was great, so were all the complimentary snacks. <\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to find girls in a bar in chennai. 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