La Place Park Inn Lucknow

... This meant that we had a comfortable seat and air conditioning. The ride was fine. We got off at the station. The porter carried Bob's and my giant duffels on his head and Manuel's suitcase in his hand. We skipped the local sightseeing and got into our private van for the ride to our next destination, Khajuarho. The trip was one hundred miles and four hours of single lane country road ...

... pretended it didn't happen and made my escape with pink roll of toilet paper hidden under my shirt. I killed that toilet and pretty much destroyed the other. When I used the toilets on trains before I wondered how could someone get **** that high up a wall. Now I know. Cleaning lady I salute you.

12 hours on a train is a long time to feel sick. No i-pod or reading due to nausea. Just staggered sleeping ...

... and chilled us out, plus we saw some of the sights into the bargain!!

We eventually went back to see about the train tickets thinking we would have to go and get some foreign quota ones as there were no train seats to Delhi for 5 days...not one ....but unbelievably the travel agent guy came up with a flight to Delhi for 100 rps! YES!!!!!! of course you have to add tax...but its still only 1000 rps (£12) so that was that!! 8-12 hrs as against ...

... namaste' and we loved it. It's easy to feel sad when you see the conditions they are living in compared to our own, but if you look past the basics, you see how rich their lives are. I think their lives will always be a struggle but not in the way that we know it. Their houses are clean, they do lots of cooking and eat three meals a day. The ingredients they use are so cheap and so accessible. They all live together in family groups and everyone ...

... I had an unrealistic price stuck in my head, so my bargaining went nowhere. Alon had more success. After ten minutes he picked the first bicycle man we encountered with a realistic price (150 Rupees/US$3) and we hopped up on his rather old and dusty rickshaw. He agreed to take us both ways and wait for us while we looked around the sites. We were a little unsure about this guy's ability to ...

... and the performance in the local newspaper. "My teacher's famous," I told my coworkers as I showed the pictures to everyone at my office. I'm definitely excited to be learning from such a "Kathak master." On Sunday, Nov. 4th, my teacher and her dance troupe had another performance. This one was at a big Mela (festival) about an hour outside of Lucknow, near an area called Barabanki. My friends from class wanted to go, so with help from their Urdu school, they ...

... However, the wife kept bringing out more and more food, all different types of flaky, fried snacks that she had made. We obligingly tasting a couple of the fried delicacies, thanked our hosts and tried once again to explain to them that we had to get home, as it was past 9pm and we had work the next day. However, the man told us that his wife was cooking us dinner and asked us to stay. At this point, we realized that we had to leave now if we wanted to get home at ...

... of Avadh. The Nawabs were the Muslim rulers who controlled north Indian for almost 100 years after the decline of the Mughal Empire. There are many beautiful, old and now-crumbling examples of Mughal architecture in Lucknow dating back to the time of the Nawabs, including mosques, tombs, palaces, etc. In 1856, the British took over Avadh and exiled the last Nawab ruler to Kolkata (Calcutta), and a year later Lucknow became a key site in the First Indian War of ...

... framework. The organization works with many partners in coalitions and helps organize campaigns to support women's reproductive health, youth sexual and reproductive health, and men's action ot combat violence against women. They also do research to document cases of policy violations and provide advocacy training to local community-based organizations that work in rural parts of Uttar Pradesh and neighborhing states. Wednesday was my first day of work. Surprisingly, I ...

... bit of an overloaded first foray into this crazy genre. Namastey London - cheesy romance, fun, unsurprisingly predictable and equally implausible but very likeable film. Extremely funny at times and the audience roared when the hero (Arjun Kumar, I think) appeared on his sparkly beast of a motorbike, riding no-handed and sporting a bright pink kurti (long shirt). Khanna & Iyer - harder to follow - I was initially loathe to criticise as the language barrier may have ...