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SHIMLA TO KALKA ON THE TOY TRAIN
... move seat and car assignments around. We managed to find the "TT" official who was able to change us to better seats, but still not in the same car with the girls. And these old cars don’t have interconnecting doors.
The cars are pretty bare bones. The straight up narrow padded benches face each other.
Promptly at 10:30 AM, the whistle sounded. With a sudden yank, away we went. We snaked through ...
Highway to Nepal part 1
... 1499;זה. פרם, בכור לארבע 92; אחים גדל בכפר קטן, שם המסור 14; של הקאסט 93;ת (חלוקת מעמדו 14; בקהיל 92; ...
The accident, the hospital and back to Veterans
... one of the owner operators at Brighton. A real highlight was a visit from my former Nortel colleague and boss, Les Russell and his wife Janette. I'd been in touch with Les earlier in the trip and he and Janette decided to come to Kerala partly on my recommendation. I had hoped to greet them on the balcony at Veterans but, as it turned out that did not happen until last week after I got out of the hospital. Les and I were then able ...
Chandigarh.....supposedly city beautiful?!
... all. The reservoir was small and uninteresting and the rock sculpture garden was equally dull and too busy to enjoy. We could have done a whistle stop tour and seen all the supposed sights in the city within four hours, so dull were the attractions. Unfortunately for us we'd booked our hotel on line and were stuck in the most boring city in India for three days!
This was the first planned city we'd ever visited and to be fair, it was planned badly. The grid system ...
Chand's Chandigarh
... to but because we had no choice. The price was ridiculous, more than two and half times what we had been paying else where for less standard but what can one do? We bedded down for a few hours before hitting Nak Chand's Rock Garden, our sole purpose of coming to Chandigarh.
Nek Chand arrived from Pakistan and was employed as a road inspector. Over the years he collected waste materials as the city was being built. All of this waste he hauled back to his home ...
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