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[quote="Count Steer" post_id=402639




(Not India but another couple of friends did one of those hols on a traditional boat on the Nile....and went swimming in it.

When I saw him some time after he'd been on antibiotics for something like a chest infection. He said the chest thing was much better but, for the first time in ~2 months since the holiday, he didn't have gippy guts. ).
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Another occasion in my backpacking days I spent a few weeks in Egypt,got all the way down to Aswan,never got I'll. India was something else!

After reading this thread, I'm a lot less interested in going than I was!

Bustaspoke wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 2:59 pm I've been to various parts of the world with a reputation for poor hygene,but the only place that properly floored me was India.The Doc thought I had dysentry

I once complained about a cockroach in the gravy in India and the chef came out, scooped the cockroach out and walked away.
I call after him to ask if he was going to change the gravy and straight up he explained that it was a healthy live cockroach and not a dead one, so no need to change the gravy.