So we are almost there - 2 more sleeps to go for the Great Indian Vacation after 3+ years. Little did we realize that we are now a different "category" of visitors to India. Am not talking about the new Aussie passports here - that is just a document. We are now called visitors of the type "VFR - Visiting Friends & Relatives".
I have been travelling a bit this year to countries of different sanitation standards from Muscat to Manila, throw in a Guangzhou as well. Never bothered to do any precautionary / preventive vaccinations prior to my travel. This time being a vacation and also involving travelling with kids thought of taking some measures. Our GP - a lady from Sri Lankan origin gave us a nice long lecture. We apparently were supposed to see her 2 weeks prior to our trip. She was quite disappointed that we went just a few days before. One of the vaccines (for malaria) had to be taken 2 weeks prior to the trip.
That is when we got to hear this term "VFR". Apparently there are different types of visitors - corporate travellers who stay in posh hotels and eat in posh restaurants. Normal Tourists who stay in decent hotels and eat from propah restaurants. And then comes the VFRs apparently the most riskiest as they are usually ex-locals going back to their families and friends. They supposedly tend to be more prone to catching a bug or two here there eating "carelessly".
There was a long list of can's and no-can's when it came to eating. What can I say - it felt "different".
Parasakthi - here we come!!! (Incorrigible??) ;-)
C
