Good morning from London.
I’ve got two things in mind.
One is definitely coffee.
And two is to start making my way to the airport.
I’m about to go back to Paddington station where I can catch the Heathrow express back
to the airport.
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So I made it to Paddington station and got myself a cup of coffee.
But I got yelled at, because I was trying to film something inside Starbucks, and I
didn’t realize that you’re not supposed to film... milk.
But even in a station like this, I can film whatever to a certain extent, but not inside Starbucks.
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Announcer: good morning ladies and gentlemen, this stop is Heathrow Central.
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Making my way back to the airport.
So today, I’m leaving from terminal five, which is going to be all flights to the States.
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OK, I made it to Heathrow, and then surprisingly, check in is an easy process.
I just went to one of the machines, read my passport, and it said “All right!
Here you go!
Your boarding pass.“
So I didn’t have to join any of the lines and now I’m heading out to the security lines.
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OK, went through security and now I have a lot of time to spend at the airport lounge.
I guess it’s a really busy morning for them.
When I gave them my Priority Pass, they said 45 minutes waiting time.
So I just put in my name, and they will call my name when it’s ready.
I’m currently in an airport lounge here, and it’s a bit weird.
It’s just busy.
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I found a Tiffany’s inside Heathrow airport.
And I just asked for my ring to be cleaned and they said “Yes.
It’s going to be about two minutes.”
So I’m just waiting here.
So hopefully they’ll be able to just buff it and make it new!
Or at least look like new.
All right, it’s cleaner I guess.
I am in Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and I’m on my way to Mumbai and I’m going
to spend a little over a week in India.
So I got my Starbucks coffee, which, by the way, is the best coffee in the airport right now.
So I’ve been flying pretty much all night, and I’m about to board a flight to Mumbai
in about an hour here and head over there.
I’m really looking forward to the food, so I guess I’ll see you when I get to India.
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Lots more legroom, and I have a TV, which probably people in the back don’t.
And free drinks, but it’s a little too early in the morning for that.
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So I made it to Mumbai and this is my Airbnb that I’m staying at.
My host, Jeet, and I are actually going to head out into the city today.
He’s going to be my tour guide.
We’re probably going to stop at a few places and then have lunch and check out the city.
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[Jeet speaking to the driver in Hindi, I think]
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So today, we are visiting the Dharavi slum. This is my first day in Mumbai and I’m still pretty tired.
But we are going to go into the slum today. It’s where Slumdog Millionaire was shot.
We’ll take you in!
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Hey, hi there.
So this is Jeet.
And I’m going to take Michael around in the biggest slum of, I think, Southern Asia
- which is also known as Dharavi.
We’re going to see a lot of cottage industries - small scale industries, which are working from this slum.
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We’re going on a tour of the Dharavi slum today.
It’s a slum that has about 600,000 to about 1 million people.
They haven’t got quite a good estimate yet.
But I do know is that it was formed in 1882.
And, as of now, it’s the second largest slum in the world, I believe.
The only one bigger is in Orangi in Pakistan.
So there’s a lot of industry going on here, from leather tanning to pottery making, etc.
and we’re going to take a look at some of that now.
People bring their plastic here, and they take it all and they sort it out.
And then they bring it elsewhere to be recycled.
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So this is where some of the fabric that we just saw being sewn gets dyed.
So these men put the fabric in these big buckets of dye, and they spin it around, and then
they dry it on hangers back there.
One thing that’s very impressive to me here is how hot it is.
Yet, you just get used to it I guess.
There it goes, into the dye or the cleaning.
I would imagine that’s probably already dyed.
But they’re just putting it in a solution to make it stay on.
A fixing solution.
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[Horns blowing]
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So what I’ve learned about this slum already is that there are many, many industries here.
It is leather tanning, clothing making, a lot of recycling, and clay pot making.
And, I mean, it’s a really poor place to be, but the thing is that, the people here
don’t... it doesn’t have the feeling of the poverty, except for, of course, the buildings.
But what you really, really notice here after being here for a while is that, even though
it is a very, very poor area, somehow they just make it work!
Everybody here seems to just make it work.
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It’s a bit weird.
It’s just busy.
It doesn’t really matter, we can start over.
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