Rahi Hotel Gomti Lucknow

... style of Angkor Wat. The town is actually clean and neat. No beggars or garbage pickers. Many travelers like to come here to visit the temples because the reliefs depict life two thousand years ago. Many of the reliefs go into details based on the Kama Sutra, as part of the soldier's life. The Japanese love it here. We left after lunch. No more trains for us. We flew to Varanasi. Love, Leslie

... like no other for me and it isn't about ensuring I have a photo album or a completed check list of to do's done to document my time here.

It is hard to believe that I have only been here a week. Gotta go get fitted for my clothes for the wedding. FUN!

... in excrement.

The right hand toilet was western. Similar to the trainspotting toilet. This negated the need to strip off and was my favored dropping off point. That is until I misjudged my stance (no sitting on the thing, no way, just semi squatting at a 45 degree angle and holding on the sink tight for dear life) and shat everywhere. Had a vain attempt at a clear up operation. But it was beyond hope. I ...

... but we loved Nepal very much too ..

A great journey, in comfort for a change, a few of the normal dramas you get on Indian roads of course!! but loads to look at yet agian, a great lunch stop off .... and a break to watch a hindu wedding, another mini adventure, what more can you ask for ... and a proper loo stop ...its fantastic .... loads of rerally thriving little towns en route all busy and full of life each seeming to sell a certain type ...

... 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 ...

Hi Everyone!! I know it's been quite a long time since my last blog post...I apologize and can only offer the excuse that I've been swamped with work, who would have thought? So, to try to make up for being such a slacker on my blog entries, I've uploaded a short video that I created to show the other AJWS fellows a little about my ...

... We spent almost 2 hours listening to the yogi tell us about his yoga practice and telling him what we wanted to learn. He said repeatedly that yoga was not about the postures, but about finding your "inner self" and doing deep meditation, and that the yoga in the U.S. that places so much emphasis on movement and postures isn't really true yoga. When we began to talk about logistics of taking yoga lessons with him, he was adamant that we'd need to take at least ...

llegamos por la manana tempranito y despues de luchar con los autorickshwas tomamos uno que nos queria vender la moto otra vez, y le dijimos muchas veces que se callara y que nos llevara donde queriamos no al hotel del primo o de quien fuera. Al final estuvimos con el dos horas de reloj buscando hotel porque habia muchos hoteles pero todos llenos o realmente eran penosos. ASi que al final nos fuimos al baba hotel cerca de la estacion de autobuses y de trenes. Que malilla ...

... and arrived home safely. Later that day, Sharon and I decided to check out an area in downtown Lucknow called Hazratganj and aimed to visit this foreigner-friendly bookstore that a friend who'd been to Lucknow before had told me about. At around 4pm, we hailed an auto rickshaw and asked him to take us to Ram Advani Books on M.G. Road in Hazratganj (the neighborhood). Of course, we didn't expect him to know the bookstore, but we thought that maybe he could take us ...

... us his cell phone to call Paula, the NGO's administrative officer, who volunteered to meet us later to take us shopping for some preliminary essentials. Paula told us that she'd allow us to settle in a bit and would come meet us at 12:30pm to go shopping. Paula and JK picked us up at the apartment at around 1:00pm. Paula is a very sweet middle-aged Indian woman and speaks perfect English! She is also a wealth of information, and I know she'll be a great ...