27.12.2012 Views

A MUSICAL VOYAGE - Royal Australian Navy

A MUSICAL VOYAGE - Royal Australian Navy

A MUSICAL VOYAGE - Royal Australian Navy

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

- 184 –<br />

In between rehearsals and the ceremonies, we were able to have a bit of a look around<br />

Mumbai. We visited the Gateway to India, and saw how the rich lived by going into the Taj<br />

Mahal Palace hotel. An interesting restaurant we came across was the “Sachin Tendulkar<br />

Restaurant”, which featured some of his favourite meals, as well as cricket and sporting<br />

memorabilia. With 18 million people in one city, it is more crowded and traffic crazier than<br />

you can imagine! It was easy to strike up a conversation with the taxi drivers by just<br />

mentioning cricket, Brett Lee and Shane Warne obvious favourites. On Sunday, the pace did<br />

slow down quite considerably, but probably because everyone was on every playing field<br />

available playing cricket! India was certainly an experience, and by receiving the great<br />

support and appreciation from HMAS Arunta by providing some live music for them ensured<br />

our trip was a success.<br />

<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Australian</strong> <strong>Navy</strong> Band: A Musical Voyage

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!