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... tried in vain to find a route to the hotel. We declined the offer of rickshaw transport when we were eventually dropped off further away than we had been 45 minutes earlier. Our hotel is a similar standard to Mumbai but seems somewhat less clean and with various facilities needing attention. Martin sighed as 2 members of the Barmy Army passed us in reception. I was just pleased to see some fellow westerners. We made our way to ...
Goodbye Bangkok, hello Calcutta
... Es ist schon gewoehnungsbeduerftig, wie die Armut einem zum Teil entgegen schlaegt und den sehr hartnaeckigen Bettlern wuerde man am liebsten allen etwas geben, aber davon muss man sich wohl etwas frei machen.
Wir essen also einen Happen und besorgen etwas Geld und wollen dann noch einmal ein wenig ins Zimmer, bevor wir uns wieder ins Getuemmel stuerzen; doch diese Rechnung haben wir ohne Shaid gemacht, der uns beim Chai Tee trinken in ein ...
The never ending story of a crazed wanderer
... at telling anyone else how to do this! Despite all his inexhaustible gusto, if you really pay attention and sift out all the hot air about his business plans, you are left with some decent recommendations on what, where and how (on a budget) to see most of India.
The only real problem Rupak has, is delivering on a promise – he kept telling us that we’d go here, there and everywhere, and on each and every occasion we only got to the here (there and everywhere being lost ...
Whip around Kolkata
... up in the corners , large chinese vases, portraits , victorian art ,china and furniture, grandfather clocks , anything you can imagine- saw a life size statue of a whippet in silver, about 13 chandeliers hanging half way to the floor in the ballroom .Many things covered with dusty old sheets. Like the Louvre crossed with Versailles and then given to Miss Haversham to live in. Courtyard was open air but the top covered with bird wire as courtyard ...
Kali's Kolkata: Faded Capital of the British Raj
... their baggage and ran for connecting trains.
Out on the streets heading to our guest house, it seemed eerily quiet. It was not the Kolkata that I had prepared myself for. There was little traffic, no sign of beggars dragging themselves down the sidewalk and yes, there were sidewalks. My imagined Kolkata was Old Delhi times two-- a dirty, impoverished and chaotic city. This impression was clearly not correct. Over the three days ...
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