New Bengal

Hello and welcome to my travelpod! Things have certainly chainged since I last went travelling in 1998. Gone are the days of Poste Restante (for those of you who even know what that is!) and welcome to travelling in the noughties with MP3 players ...

... luego pasear por la tierra de Gandhi y Nehru por al menos dos meses. Esperamos poder contar todas nuestras (buenas) experiencias, y en lo personal, espero no volver transformado en un hippie new age, aunque sí algo más sabio de lo que llegué :)

My around the world trip with my little sister, Anna, takes us through Russia, China, South East Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand and South America.

4 states, 3 months, 2 permits, and 1 perforated eardrum. Rock. A/N: New improved! Now with photos!

... full definition is as follows: Gleckeling is the act of two or more Gleckels creating and finding overseas adventure. Join us for six months of gleckeling updates through Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Scotland, and Massachusetts.

Welcome to our new blog. Thought we'd switch to this site as it allows you numpties to see where we are on a map! And it also allows us to ulpoad short movie clips - all above board of course ;-)

... you would know was once the capital city, looks interesting. (Delhi did not become capital until 1912). The hotel in West Bengal really is in a converted fort (built 18th century (1783) and later headed up by the rather austere looking General Watson) ...

... like a nice transition back into India. All is not rosy though, as the Darjeeling area is fighting for independence from West Bengal to form an independent state – Gorkhaland. There are protests in the streets, which bloke the roads temporarily, but ...

30.9.06 Malda, West Bengal, India Beautiful Golden Park Hotel We were up early because the bed was so uncomfortable. There was no top sheet, so I'd folded mine in half lengthways to cover me from the blowing of the noisy ceiling fan. The mattress ...

... water-which-turns-to-land, where the Ganges flows to the sea and tigers prey on humans. This is the last home of the Royal Bengal Tiger and the supposed point of making a trip here. When we visited there was more land than usual exposed by the tide and ...

... .  India is just such an interesting place with all its religions.  Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Christians, new agers - the list goes on... It has made me think a lot about religion and ...

... to leave at 21:20 with a planned schedule to arrive at 13:20 next day. My final destination was Darjeeling in West Bengal! After my arrival on the train station hundred of eyes were watching me, wondering where this stranger want to go. After figuring ...

... we would perform and of course we were spending most of our time each day practicing and trying to perfect this new and challenging music.  We performed many pieces all featuring different combinations of the members on stage in different traditional ...

... since joining my job. Started out early from Durgapur and reached Bishnupur at 1'o clock....Our speed was slow because the Pulsar's new engine needed to be conditioned...About 10 kms from Bishnupur the clutch cable of my Enfield tore....Had to replace it ...

... As it is with India, I was suddenly "moved" out of the familiar - this time North India beckoned. I was meeting a friend I met in the Ashram in Trivandrum (South India) in Darjeeling, West Bengal. So exciting! With gratitude for Conventions, ...

New Year's Prayer A Belated Happy and very Blessed New Year to You All! I wish you every joy and peace in all that you do and experience in 2008. This year, for the very 1st time in my life, I woke up on New Year's Day happy - naturally happy, ...

... that Indians like to travel and given there are several billion of them, no sleeper train tickets were available till the new year.  The hotels in "Cal" proved to be relatively expensive compared to Nepal and it took a good few guesthouses ...

... to go to a matinee. There wasn't too big a queue and after a couple of tries at shows that weren't available, we settled on Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Starring Robin Williams as the tiger it was described as a black comedy. That it was; more black ...