The Rock Tower

Yay politics. But much like last time I'm not going to talk about current affairs in the mainstream news, even though there's a fair amount to talk about. I mean I'm definitely not going to ask how the White House can't find someone better at the press than Sean "it's okay to use chemical weapons for ethnic cleansing" Spicer.

I'm going to talk about crazy Indian politics. In an attempt to cut down on drink driving they have introduced a rule whereby noone can serve alcohol within so many metres of the National Highway. This sort of makes sense, you can see a logic at any rate. Unfortunately the whole Gurugram economy is based on the easy access to the highway (and in turn the airport). This means that all the high-end hotels and all the bars / restaurants set up for the Big Four crowd fall within this restriction.

For the record they introduced this rule on April 1st. The old double bluff, everyone assumed it was a joke until they couldn't buy a beer.

I can't help but notice a correlation between this coming into effect and how very busy my local (which is outside the restriction) was on a Tuesday night. Absolutely heaving, it was. You  could tell it was banging by the way they played Ice Ice Baby and Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. The Clock Tower? The Rock Tower more like.

Oh and if anyone actually uses this for useful travel information (more fool you, this is the idiosyncratic warblings of an idiot - go and use a real website), India has removed a stupid rule too - it's like a one-out-one-in policy policy. You now no longer need to get a baggage tag stamped when you go through airport security. This saves about a minute per journey and a veritable forest of baggage tags. Hoorah for coming into line with every other country.

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Shout out to Jaffa, now that it's gone okay I can make an inappropriate reference to your old nickname.