| Subject: Calcutta Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 19:43:40 +0100 From: "anne jensen" <annezerlina@wanadoo.dk> To: <Robert.Menefee.CC.79@aya.yale.edu> Dear Robert Menefee, Thank you for your homepage about Calcutta. I myself have the same facination of this city. I have been there five times over the last six years. The three first times I stayed at the Fairlawn Hotel then I shifted to The Great Eastern, where I have stayed two times for about a month. It's a fantastic hotel and it is my dream to make a film about that place. The strange atmosphere of something dusty and forgotten is very intense. It's a huge place and hardly any guests and absolutely no foreigners.But then there is a throng of servants opening doors for you saluting you every time you come or leave the place, three servants to bring your dinner, 24 hour roomservice. It's tru, that they come running to your room all the time bringing you fresh water or a telephone book or what ever they can think of hoping for some tip, but they do it with such charm, that I for my part tiped them well. In return I was treated like a queen and they remembered me, when I came back two years later. The staff in the restaurants (there are four of them in the hotel) and in the reception are warm and higly serviceminded - something I'm not used to here in Copenhagen - so don't listen to this wang-person. Try it next time you go and give them my greetings. Anne Jensen
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