
Well last night we went to have dinner with Kim who Cindy worked with in Evergreen at Friendship Bridge, the non profit that gave micro loans to women in Guatemala , Kim now works for Water for People and they have a office here and serve the poor people here giving them fresh water and toilets.
So Kim was staying at the Tollygunge club, a old colonial era golf club, which also for some reason has a small hotel on its grounds called the enclave. The company I work for has a company membership at this club and we as employees can use it, but we dont as its 40km away, and as last night proved it took 1.5hrs to get there and 2 hrs to get home! And to we left at 10pm to drive home and it took 2 hrs!!

The club as you can see is pretty much stuck in a time warp. It has about 5 restaurants, hard to find they are, just like the hotel. There is absolutely no signage in this place, and for some weird reason there are hundreds of stray dogs lieing around the pathways. The place looked pretty cool, but was not anywhere near as cool as the last place we went to the Calcutta Cricket Club. It has a lot of amenities, pools both indoors and outdoors, tennis courts, squash courts and the golf course . And there were people everywhere, so really I wouldnt like to be a member as I doubt you could ever use the facilities. We also found something strang inside there, a Spencers supermarket…why is there a supermarket in a members only club is good question we will never get answered. It also had shops, like a icecream shop, a bakery and some clothing stores, like a little tiny town all by itself.
Dinner was different, there appeared to be only 2 places to eat open, one inside and cool and one open air restaurant. So we choose the air conditioned restaurant, which turned out to be chinese food, well indian chinese food… The food was cheap, but so was the quality, the menu wasnt vast, and we are still wondering what the Honk Kong Chicken is, or was!
But for a mere Ruppees 700 ($14) we got dinner for 3 and a fair amount of beer, so it wasnt too bad, I wouldnt rush back there, but I would go back there.
