I am now in Bangalore, in the south. Its the most modern city in India, higher wages, higher prices, richer people, less poverty. Standing on the main shopping street you really could be in any major city in any country, there’s nothing really to distinguish it from the others. Lots of western people, lots of …
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Monkey Business On Top Of Udyagiri and Khandagiri Hill.
I have finally left Puri, I was there for 3 weeks!! Didn’t think I was there for that long, very strange it was. So now im in Bubaneswar, the closest city to Puri, it aint so good here, dirty as hell as usual, busy streets, wild drivers. There are however lots of things to see …
Fishing Village
I went to the fishing village the other day, its a little up the coast from where I am. Going there is a look into a different way of life, a way of life surrounding fishing. There’s lots of low straw roofed houses, many families all living close together. The beach is a hive of …
Pu(ri)king
Im now in Puri, south of Calcutta on the coast, quite a popular seaside resort for Indian people. The train journey here was horrible, caught a sleeper train, the bed was a bit narrow and not long enough for me, but since i wasn’t in it that much it didn’t really matter. I was in …
Happy birthday to me, happy…and so on.
Its my birthday today, ive not really done much to celebrate it, well ive done anything really, I guess I should get drunk later on. Im leaving Calcutta tommorow, i bought a train ticket to go to a placed called Puri, south of here on the coast. As i was buying the ticket in a …
Some Colcutta (Kalcutta, kulcatta, kitcaller whatever).
Been out and about a bit these last 2 days. Yesterday I went to the Botanical Gardens here in Colcutta, pretty nice they were, there’s some pictures of them in this post. A good thing about the gardens was i didn’t get mobbed everytime i took a picture, anywhere else and as soon as I …
India, oh India, how do you operate with no traffic lights.
Im in India! I love it! I love it more than the sound of babies crying! More than the sound of puppies in pain! More than the sound of bones breaking! (20 points to whoever knows what film I plagerised these laments from, which despite sounding negative im using to portray a positive). On the …
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