Hotel Sunflower Darjeeling

... i learned to play dominoes im obsessed and will take ur soul in it like i beat matt gaski in drinking games.<br>The toilets are terrible its like an outhouse with a hole in the ground so ur freezing and unless u can do a catchers squat there is no way of doing it right or comfortably... if anyone has perfected this art please tell me.<br><br>"dumping like deleo" 12,687 feet up.<br>

... poor sitting on the floor by the train exits in rags, eating peoples leftovers.... especially with small babies in their arms .there was one such girl sitting there for a day and two nights, with a small baby and a little boy of about 4/5 yrs by her side who was nodding off to sleep but kept jerking awake when the train got bumpy, he was obviously shattered, they were all three filthy dirty and ragged but she gave me such a big friendly smile and DIDN'T ask for money ...

... is a nice and quirky place with a lovely owner and good restaurant but the downside is that hot water is only available from the tap for 1and a half hours a day and not all the rooms have western toilets. 23rd Got up late and went for a walk around to see the town taking in the Obersatory Hill and the Tibetan Refugee self help centre. Then the rain started so we returned to the town and had some lovely cups of tea and some cakes ...

... girl Emma (who has just finished doing a grad program in Canberra) had decided to join us as well. We picked up another Australian couple on the way to dinner and ended up having a great time. I had dressed up as much as circumstances allowed, and even took off my beanie for the night. We ate at Glenary's (previous site of my cold malai kofta) and I ordered dhal makhani which, after Lunar's incredible effort, was very poor. We plied it with salt and ...

... I had a Disney-like picture of India in my head, and now I'm learning what it really is. I just needed to get this out to feel like I'm being truthful with everyone who reads this. India is hard to deal with sometimes. It can be fun, exciting, sad, heartwarming, boring, awkward, and everything else imaginable, just like everywhere else. Its impossible to convey experience in words, but I just thought I'd try to explain the ways that India can be hard and ...

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... I've been taking along with those pills to build up my immune system. We've stayed at nice hotels which means hot water and Western toilets. Much to Gabe's chagrin, people think we are married. The place we're at now is very nice but I feel like Alice in Wonderland...all the furniture is so tiny. Clearly everything is designed for much smaller people than me and gabe. The furniture in the hall is made of bamboo and there's little seating arrangements, along with a ...

Well we said we would never do it again, but we have today we arrived in Siliguri, minus sleep, on a night bus!! For once we were grateful the bus was late and we arrived at 7.30am instead of 5am! It was the nosiest bus and i think the driver must have had a weak bladder, like me, because we seemed to stop every 20mins for the men to go to the loo! Helen and i had to hoist our skirts and wee on the side of the motorway.... thank goodness it was dark! There's not a ...

... and up into a crescendo again, reverberating through the compartment. Amazing! Things got better after I got up to go to the bathroom, giggling hysterically at it, since you gotta laugh, when the noise of my crocs hitting the floor as I threw them down ahead of me disturbed them enough to break the cycle. After that I got some sleep, though there was another incident that woke us all with yelling. We couldn't determine what happened but ...

... bigger the mosquito the bigger the bite. Killing a mosquito during the bite doesn't help anymore. Special crafty creatures aim at the sole during your sleep. - IIM has many employees. But I have to doubt their efficiency: when more than 2 work in a group, one is there for supervising the others' work; crows vandalized a dust bin and these guys just watch and clear up later - clever strategy to justifying their employment I guess. - painting gets a new definifion ...