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Toy trains and back to the cold
The journey to Shimla was a long one, taking the best part of a day; this started with a train from Delhi to Kalka and then a toy train up the mountain to Shimla. The train is known as a toy train due to the narrow gauge. The journey was a long but scenic one as we saw the changing countryside as we climbed higher and higher. Unfortunately, delays are par for the course and when we finally arrived in ...
Nightmarish Journeying
... along the treacherous roads.
The bus to Simla was especially torturous, with my poor little Georgie having two diarrhea attacks, mess on legs, clothes and on the floor. I used writing paper in my attempt to clean it up and just chucked his mucky shorts out of the window, as the bus swayed in all directions on the rough road surfaces. I felt like I was close to vomiting for most of the journey.
I had entertained the idea ...
Shimla
... a million moths buzzing round and getting in your face. I wouldn't have fancied my moth butter chicken quite as much. Although I would probably have gotten more meat off them than I have at previous restaurants! lol We wandered back and luckily we had a bit of soccer, and some wrestling, on the telly so we watched that for a bit while we waited for the Liverpool game to come on about 12.30am. We were all a bit knackered and Joe ended up falling asleep quite ...
Scottish castles and monkey versus dog...
... aggressive - and climbed to the monkey temple. Queued to be blessed by the holy man in the shrine - a saffron dot placed on our foreheads. The holyman paused in doing this only to take a call on his mobile - new India v old India cliche.
Leaving the temple we nearly were nearly caught in the cross fire of a turf war between a troop of monkeys and the local stray dogs. Much baring of teeth, shreaks and barks. It was unclear as to who won.
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The Bomb Squad is Outside...Welcome to India?!
... contact, and he said that he would come right away to pick me up. I gave the phone back to the man, then five minutes later, my contact phoned back and the man told me that he would not be coming, then gave me his address and said that I needed to take a taxi there. This was pretty much my worst nightmare, as I had heard many horror stories about taxi drivers scamming tourists, or worse.
I headed out of the airport, and immediately noticed that there was a ...
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