Posts Tagged ‘kolkata’
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2 March 2010 tagged 1984, bazaar, bed bugs, beer, breakfast, cafe, caves, christian, commission, complaint, dinner, dormitory, elephant island, entrance fee, ferry, france, goa, grottos, guns, hotel, india, kolkata, laundry, lonely planet, lookout point, manager, mattress, mumbai, ngo, salvation army hostel, scam, shave, sleeping bag, station, street market, taxi, ticket, train, wifi, windows with no comments
day 321 — it was cold on the train and i had difficulty sleeping. without a sleeping bag i had nothing to cover me or protect me from the cold wind that came in through the gap in the windows. the morning was better and i sat in the sun reading my book and looking […]
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28 February 2010 tagged 1984, airport, apple, around the world in 80 days, australia, beef masala, beer, bookshop, breakfast, buddhist, burma, business class, cold shower, corn, dharma, dinner, dorm, email, flight, fudge, gaya, george orwell, hotel, hotel maria, india, jules verne, kimchi bokeumbab, kolkata, korea, koreans, loud speaker, market, money, mosque, mumbai, myanmar, package, sleeping bag, street stall, taxi, the bastard of istanbul, train, vip, yangon with no comments
day 316 — i had breakfast and talked to dave for a while, then started my new book ‘the bastard of istanbul’. the book annoyed me (focusing on how much armenians hate turks and visa versa) and i refused to read more. i’m sure the book has a happy ending and they all grow to […]
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3 February 2010 tagged air india, book, burma, chess, coffee, craig, cycle rickshaw, email, hammock, hotel, indian embassy, kolkata, lonely planet, mandalay, markets, moustache brothers, myanmar, passport, tattoo, tourist, train ticket, travel, visa, yangon, yangon united fc with no comments
day 311 — today was a fairly easy day. i had breakfast and drank a coffee at an outdoor café. i checked email and walked around town. i spent a few hours online in the afternoon, had dinner and slept.
day 312 — my morning routine had settled into breakfast and coffee. the small café had a […]
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10 April 2009 tagged airport, atm, audiobooks, australia, baht, bangkok, bangladesh, bbc, blackout, book, border, breakfast, buffet, cab, cafe, chang mai, check in, commission, cook, couchsurfing, currency, dollars, dynamite, electricity, email, embassy, emerald buddha, exchange, exit visa, flight, forms, funny, guest, hotel, immigration, india, ingredients, ipod, jihad, kassandra, khao san road, kolkata, linen, lonely planet, mcdonalds, mr jihad, mr men, muslim, myanmar, officials, pants, passport, plane, receipt, reclining buddha, ryan, sandwich, sheraton, shoestring, shopping, south east asia, spaghetti, stamp, subway, sudoku, taka, teacher, temple, thailand, thunderstorm, titanium, tshirt, visa, wat pho, wat phra kaew, wifi, yangon with no comments
day 30 (continued) — instead of spending the evening doing totally nothing, i decided to be a good guest and cooked dinner for my generous host. i went digging around the kitchen and found enough ingredients to make a very reasonable spaghetti. there was no cummin, kidney beans or chilli powder, but i could make […]
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5 April 2009 tagged author, awakening the sleeping buddha, bangladesh, beer, booking, breakfast, buddhism, buddhist, bureaucracy, bus, camera shop, credit card, customer, darjeeling, diary, email, embassy, european, fancy market, germany, ghoom, girl, girls, gray market, haircut, hindu, holy cow, hooker, hotel, hotel maria, india, interview, ipod case, ipod touch, jaan bazaar, jens, kimchi bokeumbab, kolkata, lonely planet, marching, mosquito net, mp3, muslim, myanmar, new market, observatory hill, passport, people, pimp, poland, polariser, pray, prostitute, protest, receipt, roman, rush hour, sandals, sarah macdonald, share jeep, shave, shirts, shower, siliguri, socks, sudder street, sylwia, taxi driver, tea, temples, traffic, train, transaction, traveler's cheque, twelfth tai situpa, visa, whiskey with no comments
day 22 — today i made another early start and walked up to observatory hill again. this time i went to a different part of the hill and took phởtographs around the hindu temples. it was quite foggy but lots of people were there to pray and make offerings for good fortune. after walking back […]
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27 March 2009 tagged bar, beer, bhutia busty gompa, blackout, bombay belly, book, book of the dead, buddha, buddhist, cafe, candle, carlsberg, choling, chowkrasta, computer, dalai lama, darjeeling, dhirdham mardin, druk sangak choling monastery, durpin gompa, educational, email, ghoom, hindu temple, hotel, india, irish, jeep, kalimpong, kip, kolkata, landscape, liverpool, london, lonely planet, lunch, mantra, markets, medicine, memories, monastery, monk, mountain, observatory hill, om many padme hum, philosophy, photo, pizza, rain, red lion, ring, sakya choling monastery, samten choling monastery, script, sella, shared jep, shop, sick, sleep, station, steps, stomach bug, taxi, tea, teach, thailand, thunderstorm, tibet, tibetan, toy train, train, train ticket, travelers diahorrea, trek, views, virus, walk, water, weather, yiga choling monastery with 2 comments
i can’t believe i’ve been in india for 3 weeks … despite everything, time is going so quickly.
day 18 — in the morning i got a taxi up to durpin gompa. it’s the biggest gompa in kalimpong and the views are sensational. unfortunately, the entire darjeeling district has been quite hazy for the past few […]