Greetings from Mumbai Airport – I’m not even going to try to spell it’s “proper” name. Free wifi aplenty, thankfully. I’ve got an hour before my connecting flight to Bangkok and have to say the first leg on Jet Airways was pretty enjoyable. As per reviews, their in-flight entertainment is a little dated but I [...]

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Actually, many roadblocks. But I’ll get to that. Today we managed to be in three different countries. We set off from Bhutan at 7am with the help of our two guides, and entered India by bus. After three hours or so, we arrived in Siliguri where a very nice taxi driver helped us locate an [...]

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An exchange of text messages told us that Prashant had called Biman Bangladesh and that we’d have to go to their city office to change our tickets to the afternoon flight and cough up 200Rp each for the privilege. A small amount, in fairness, for a very last-minute flight change. On arrival at Calcutta, I [...]

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Oh, what a day… After the last update, we dashed back to the hotel where I dashed to the nearest lavatory. My stomach’s still not completely happy with the world. We were in good time to grab our bags and get our pre-paid lift back to the train station for the 16:25 train to Calcutta, [...]

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Image from WikipediaWell today I get lumbered with a crappy computer with more security restrictions than the Pentagon, 10 keys permanently stuck down, more annoying popups than party time at a cemetery full of zombies, too slow to allow me to upload files and a desktop picture displaying something you’d kill yourself before imagining your [...]

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(apologies for bad typing on this entry – the keyboard at this cybercafe is particularly bad!) We gathered our stuff at the hotel last night – they’d charged us 40Rp to keep it safe all day – and ventured out to get a taxi to the train station. Waving one driver away for trying to [...]

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Or Kolkata, depending on which name you want to give it. We didn’t do a lot yesterday, mainly just swapping hotels and walking about. The food is good here – a couple of great cafes round the corner – and we got chatting to a nice bunch of people from Oz and Ireland before encoutering [...]

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We pulled into Mumbai at around 6am, only to find we were at the wrong station – or at least not the one we’d hoped for. Our train was bound for CST, but ended up in Dadar (the next one out) due to engineering works. As we needed to store our luggage somewhere more convenient, [...]

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Well, the train journey wasn’t bad at all. There are several classes over here, ranging from “first” (which you hardly ever see) through 2AC, 3AC, sleeper and downwards. Tonight’s train was a “SL” – sleeper class. This means no A/C, but overnight temperatures were fine. The carriage was divided by walls to which were attached [...]

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It may be a day or three until the next major update although I have time to kill in Mumbai tomorrow, so may spend most of it online! We’ve left Palolem (sadly) and started our trek northwards. A big wave and a “really hope to see you again soon” to everyone we met at the [...]

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