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A Family Outing In India
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
If you haven’t already, take a look at our last update on India.
Meeting Up
Rupert writes
Time was pressing upon us, unfortunately, and it was time to leave sleepy Jaisalmer and begin our epic of an twenty six hour journey to Mumbai. Foolishly – because we never learn – we booked a twelve hour sleeper-bus to Ahmedabad for our first leg. Nothing pleases me more than knowing I’ll never put myself through another one of those body twisting, gut curling, marathons again (although this wasn’t to be our last sleeper-bus experience). Sleep is rarely an option. In fact the only real attraction that kept us coming back – and dragging my dad and sister with us once – was having our own private, curtain drawn space above the usual seating, which would have been dealt as a high card had it not been for the bum leaving the private abode on every corner and (there were many) sections of the road that had apparently been forgotten about since the road workers dusted off their hands with a job well done, leaving it very incomplete and certainly not well done.
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Tata India
Thursday, January 5th, 2006
Rupert writes
A NOTE ON THIS WRITE-UP: So as not to throw your mind into a hurricane of confusion, thrashing madly like a dog chained to the blades of helicopter, eating at the links in desperation, until finally machine ... [Continue reading this entry]
Quick Mad One From Jaipur
Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Rupert writes
Three minutes untill the Internet Cafe closes so here we go...
We're alive, although madly tired as we're dashing through India at a rate of notts (yes, but how many? I never understood that phrase). We leave for Jodhpur ... [Continue reading this entry]
India
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
KolKata
It's changed it's name but it hasn't changed it's nappy. Kolkata is as dirty as we were warned (every traveller we spoke to had the same story to tell), but it's character, charm and endless smiling faces hide the ... [Continue reading this entry]
Monkey