 | India fatigue
2001-10-12, Mumbai, India. By: nsuffield | | Somewhat fed up of Mumbai, we spent most of the doing little errands like getting our air tickets changed and developing some of Andrea’s APS photos out ... which no-one can do in the entire of India ... |
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 | A bit like London .... but with Palm Trees
2001-10-11, Mumbai, India. By: nsuffield | | Walked up the Colaba past some rather posh shops and a lot of Leyland red double-decker buses. One of the first Indian cities that has the luxury of pavements ... amazing ... no more walking through r... |
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| The Orient Express ... Indian Style
2001-10-10, Mumbai, India. By: nsuffield | | We said goodbye to Dan at Amedabad as we rushed off to get out 7am First Class train to Mumbai (Yes! First Class .... whey hey!). As we walked along the platform we had visions of mahogany veneered co... |
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 | Curry in the pool
2001-10-09, Udaipur, India. By: nsuffield | | Early breakfast with a young Israeli we'd met and decoyed the toitoise with some leaves. A bit of posting but this time we didn't need to have the package measured and sown up, just a normal envelope!... |
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| Whiter Whites
2001-10-08, Udaipur, India. By: nsuffield | | Popped into a Havelli (an India mansion type thingy) with lots of art and things .... getting a bit bored of Havellies too know .... sorry! Caught a riksha to Saheliyon Ki Bari, a water park which has... |
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| Turtles in Space
2001-10-07, Udaipur, India. By: nsuffield | | Had breakfast at a local restaurant and managed to launch their toitoise into low altitude orbit when it caught me by surprise by munching on my toe. Visited the City palace where they had lots of min... |
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| Palaces and Maharajas
2001-09-20, Rajasthan, India. By: nsuffield | | Rajasthan is the region of the palaces and maharajas. There are palaces, fortresses and temples everywhere.
Our first stop there was in Jaipur, the pink city. We were still getting used to the Indi... |
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| Leeches and Rain
2001-10-29, Peryar Wildlife Sanctuary and Kodaikanal, India. By: nsuffield | | The bus trip to Peryar was scary. It was dark, rainy and the roads up to Kumily were windy with sheer drops down the mountain on the road side. It was so scared that I nearly had a little word with th... |
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| Palm trees everywhere
2001-10-24, Kochi, India. By: nsuffield | | I did like Kerala. It is very lush green, with loads of palm trees and very nice people. The food is great and we had a great time.
Kochi was our first stop. Neil and I had an Ayurvedic massage. Th... |
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| Jog Falls and Ohm Beach
2001-10-22, Gokarna, India. By: nsuffield | | Neil and I craved some activity after lazing on the beach in Goa for 1 week. Therefore we decided to travel to the famous Jog Falls near Gokarna which coincidentally has another seriously fabulous se... |
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| Paradise
2001-10-14, Palolem, India. By: nsuffield | | Goa was like paradise!! At first I wasn’t too keen on going since I thought it would be the Indian version of Ibiza. We went to Paloleum beach in the South of Goa and it was just pure paradise. Palm-f... |
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| Bombay - not for me!
2001-10-10, Bombay, India. By: nsuffield | | Bombay has Asia’s biggest slum area – this was the first thing I learned about this huge city.
So I wasn’t surprised that on entering Bombay in the train, we could watch many poor people going to the... |
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 | 3-2-1 Blast Off...
2001-10-28, Goa, India. By: cpeely | | It's true.. and to celebrate I met some really great English guys who have used their Digital Camera to send us some snaps.. so I've uploaded them to the site.. as you can see I've not lost too much w... |
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 | Goa Triathalon
2001-10-27, Goa, India. By: cpeely | | Yes it's true this afternoon I entered a Triathalon in Goa. It was quite a race. The first section was a 200 ft run, across the sand to avoid leaving skin. Followed by a 30 min swim in the sea. Th... |
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| Thailand here me come
2001-10-26, Goa, India. By: cpeely | | Yes it's true.. a day spent messing around with travel companies, 360 dollars lighter, but no train / bus in sight. I will be drinking beers in Thailand with Uncle Pete by Tuesday afternoon.
For t... |
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 | Special Tea
2001-10-06, Udaipur, India. By: nsuffield | | Coffee and chocolate cake for breakfast and a chat with the guy that works there. He only earns 1000 rps a month, that’s about 15 pounds. Andrea and my daily budget is almost three times that. Makes y... |
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| Sun, Sea and Sand
2001-10-25, Goa, India. By: cpeely | | The other S is at home (sorry mum ;-)). So we made it.. 26 hours, 2 trains and 3 buses to get to the famed Jewel of India.. Goa. An entire province based around beaches and chilling out. I think th... |
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| It's Party time it's excellent.
2001-10-23, Jalgaon, India. By: cpeely | | This is a curious title for any that have travelled in India as it's normally far from how one would describe the country. But I use it for several reasons.. the main one being that we have turned th... |
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| Off tomorrow...
2001-10-20, Udaipur, India. By: cpeely | | The ball last night.. or rather party at the Palace was quite something.. lots of amazing food.. spectacular backdrops and lots of very beautifully dressed Indian people. We had the most amazing boat... |
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| Off to the ball
2001-10-19, Udaipur, India. By: cpeely | | Yes it's true.. we are indeed of to a party at the royal palace tonight. Sadly it's not an exlusise guest list, just any mongrel that can rake together 300 rps. 5 course dinner, drinks 2 for 1, and ... |
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| Venice of the East
2001-10-19, Udaipur, India. By: cpeely | | No city in Rajestan is as romantic as this. The city is perched on hills surrounding a mirror like lake, containing 2 palaces. One of which is one the the Worlds most sumptous hotels (240+ USD a nig... |
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| Bollywood
2001-10-18, Jaipur, India. By: cpeely | | Okay so I'm presuming that you know that this means... if you don't it means a Chaucer style Movie that has Indian Characters. Jefferey Chaucer was really the inventor of what we call the modern play... |
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 | Test
2001-10-17, Jaipur, India. By: cpeely | | I'll tell you.. one of the craziest nights of your life.. with tons of laughter.. and I wasn't even one of the people partaking.
So after a day of walking around Jaipur, mainly looking for banks an... |
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| Pukey Soldiers and Sandy Bums
2001-10-04, Jaisalmer, India. By: nsuffield | | Due to get the train that night so we hung around the hotel most of the day. Introduced Andrea to the wild and wonderful world of Rummy. Only realised later that Germans don’t even have standard packs... |
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