Posts Tagged ‘mumbai’
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7 March 2010 tagged application, approval code, australia day, australian embassy, bakery, bed bugs, book, breakfast, bureaucracy, camera stores, chess, computer, connaught place, conversation, cult, delay, delhi, email, foreign ministry, france, hippy, hostel, hotel, india, iran guide book, iranian embassy, iranian food, letter of introduction, lonely planet, main bazaar, mumbai, music, natural born killers, new delhi, official, operating system, pakistan embassy, phone, prayer, religious, restaurant, salvation army hostel, shower, singing, spain, train, ubuntu, upgrade, visa, water with no comments
day 331 – australia day – i woke up, had breakfast and packed. the hostel had no water at all … so no shower … and i was covered in bed bug bites … again! i stored my bag and headed into town. i checked out a few camera stores, checked email and returned to [...]
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3 March 2010 tagged anjuna, anjuna beach, anjuna markets, atm, baksheesh, band, bed bugs, beer, bom jesus, breakfast, bribe, chapel, chapora fort, chess set, church, cigars, coast road, corruption, delhi, diary, elsa, email, fine, france, goa, helmet, hotel, india, licence, live music, movie, mumbai, old goa, panaji, patron saint, police, salvation army hostel, scooter, spain, st christopher, st francis of asissi, sunset, taxi stand, tibetan food, ticket, tourists, train, tshirt, vagator, village, wednesday with no comments
day 326 – i arrived in goa in the morning and headed to the taxi stand to arrange transport to anjuna (the town in goa where i’d decided to stay). at the stand i met a french girl called elsa who’d been on the bunk directly beneath me. we hadn’t spoken on the train, but [...]
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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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16 March 2009 tagged agra, agra fort, baby taj, bagh, baptism of fire, begging, bombs, british, burning ghat, chai, cliche, coffee, cultural tour, curry, danish, darjeeling limited, dead bodies, defense, diary, donation, door, email, experiences, farm, food, foreigners, francis, ganges river, gateway, german, ghat, guide, hotel, incredible india, independence, india, italian, janpath market, kevin, kiwi, laughing, laundry, liverpool, locker, lonely planet, lucknow, marijuana, matilda, moon garden, mumbai, mutineers, naive, neil, nirvana, overpriced, pack, rant, relax, residency, right of passage, ring, ripoffs, rooftop, rort, ruins, sahara ganj, scammed, shopping, shops, siege, sikandar, taj mahal, tickets, tour, toys, train station, varanasi, walls, water with no comments
day 6 – my ‘tour of agra’ turned out to be another overpriced rort. while i did go to the taj mahal, baby taj and the agra fort, the guide wanted to do a “cultural tour” which would have certainly involved going to all of his friend’s shops. we went to the moon garden, previously [...]