Hotel Harbour View
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Arriving Mumbai
Same ol', taking me back to.. Hotel Harbour View down in Colaba just by the sea, the breeze and rooftop restaurant. Just perfect when arriving Mumbai with view directly towards Gate of India. I love to be back to this city - over and over again. It's noisy, chaos, music, colours, people, people, people, desperately poor to filthy rich. Have to go to this city once in a lifetime.
Slumming it
Day one - 3 April 2012
MUMBAI - IN AT THE DEEP END
After a measly 2 hours sleep on the flight, inhaling the constant aroma of sweaty feet, and having consumed three consecutive meals of curry we arrive in Mumbai (Bombay).
The scenery comes alive from the moment you leave Bombay airport, that is on the …
Mapping Mumbai
Finding my feet in Mumbai, getting to know the sights and sounds of the city. I have walked the length and breadth of the Colaba and Fort districts. To make things more difficult for myself, I have been using a map, not from the Rough Guide, but from the classic Murray's Handbook to India, Burma & Ceylon, 1926 edition. If Annie Maitland had a …
Full Circle
"Good morning, madam. Frontway Backside". “No thankyou. “Frontway Backside, madam”, said the gentleman again, pointing in the opposite direction to that I was walking in. “Oh! OK! Thankyou” I said, turning around.
Arriving at C.S.T (V.T) Station in Mumbai at 7am (an hour later than scheduled, and after 13 …
Aurangabad
... or ice cream. The pantry from the train served tea, coffee, samosas, onion bhajis and other assorted offerings. To be safe we stuck to water, I was experiencing my first bout of that condition associated with the capital city of this land. We were fortunate to be travelling 1st class. The other carriages were a thronging mass of people. In our carriage were families, business people and a party of about 20 possibly from Poland ...
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