Hola Kanacki
Good video - thanks. It goes to show, when you've witnessed such amazing things, how can one possibly complain about some rain in the UK?
Scots; the hardiest, intrepid and most spirited adventurers/explorers that Great Britain has produced. You fellas have made your mark across the world. Talking about the Indian sub-continent, in the turbulent areas around the north/north-west, Scottish bagpipes provide the music of choice and it was Scottish highlanders who made things happen there when the British were still there...
My sister lives in Edinburgh and the country further north is some of the most stunning landscapes one could imagine.
I have now made some trips to India to check some things out and that country is bewildering and can quickly assume and overcome a person on so many levels. It is a most fascinating contradiction. There is rampant corruption and deprivation. There is awesome wealth and honesty. For example, you can come across 'officials' that are ready to sell the country's art treasures for a pittance. Then you have families that have been loyally serving the same dynasty for centuries and centuries such as the one which until the 1980s took care of the late maharajah of Kashmir's treasure chests which contained the most amazing sapphires, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls and gold and silver jewellery imaginable. This humongous treasure was left in sealed trunks with a trusted assistant in Kashmir when partition took place and the maharajah hastily left for the newly formed India. This assistant loyally watched over the treasure in a dilapidated building for nearly 40 years until old age and then started to worry who he would pass the baton to as he had no male heirs to continue...
There was an old palace of a former maharajah in busy, bustling Delhi which was being fought over by the family when he died. Whilst the case was dragging through the courts, the palace was simply sealed and the caretaker given the keys. This magnificent palace had the very finest china, furniture, art, rugs, vases, cars, clothes and jewellery amassed from the finest collections of Europe and Asia, and was simply left to rot. Yet not a single item was pilfered, vandalised, stolen or broken. It was simply accepted that "what will be will be" by all concerned. It was a huge estate slap-bang in the middle of this huge metropolis.
I think everyone's got their beverage of choice and are awaiting your presence....