After our busy morning our guide
takes us to a marble inlay shop from which we nearly never escape to complete
the rest of our around the world adventure.
We enter the shop and are shown the
special art of marble inlay made famous by the Taj Mahal.
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| Marble inlay from Taj Mahal |
We are then shown every possible piece of inlaid
marble in the shop – big, small, for inside, outside, plates, boxes, elephants,
vases – you name it it was inlaid! We know that neither of us are interested,
but the shop keeper was very insistent – after all “his home was our home” and
we were being shown “the fantastic Indian hospitality”. Eventually we say “not today” for marble, and
are then taken to the jewellery room, then the hookah room, then the Pashmina room, then the sari room ….. “surely there is something here that you like - all
at good price for you”…. Weary of the
shop and salesman we finally find an escape hatch.
We agree that from now on if such a
situation arises we will say that “we are looking for a gift” , but if we need
to escape say that “unfortunately we don’t think Auntie Norma would like it”!
Mrs M
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