 | Back to Calcutta
2008-04-14, Calcutta, India. By: oolong | | Took the day train back to Calcutta - served many courses of "hygenic" food on the train. Calcutta is a city of desparation... but as Sasha pointed out, at least there is hope for the people of Calcu... |
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| Flt to Calcutta
2008-03-15, Calcutta, India. By: oolong | | Flt to Calcutta. Got an great meal on Air India then landed in Calcutta airport... Screwed around on the internet hunting down contacts and numbers while outside a team of people from the clinic wai... |
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 | The fastest week in India!
2007-02-19, Calcutta, India. By: 16Aussie | | Here is a little about what I did this week...
Street Kids...
I worked a lot with this Shelter for street children, ages any where between 4-18 they brush there teeth, get a bath, get clean clot... |
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| Been here for a week
2007-02-12, Calcutta, India. By: 16Aussie | | I arrived in calcutta last Tuesday. All is well, we are just staying in a small village... so I don't really have access to anything. We are working with street kids at the moment. Helping a minist... |
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| Back to Blightly
2006-08-27, Calcutta, India. By: tash3008 | | I arrived back in the UK this morning (finding out on the journey back that England is referred to as old blighty by some - hence the name of the story) but thought I should fill in on the last week i... |
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| Flying cattle trucks and cows who headbutt...
2006-08-22, Calcutta, India. By: tash3008 | | So somehow I ended up in Calcutta again... Jodhpur was lovely, we did very little except hang out by the pool and sleep. There was a fort with elephant seats in it which was interesting for a morning,... |
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| cool chapdani
2006-01-03, Calcutta, India. By: togol | | it was sheer fun there. cool place. the river ganges was incredible. you must visit chapdani. |
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| Slums, cinemas and lovely people
2005-08-08, Calcutta, India. By: tash3008 | | The last few days have been really lovely. On Friday we went to buy our train tickets to
Darjeeling which was a bit of an ordeal, they need to see passports and have long forms filled out just to ... |
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| Still all a bit weird!
2005-08-03, Calcutta, India. By: tash3008 | | I now have a regular cabbie who takes me to the meetings. He has the best dashboard of any of the cabs that hang out at our local taxi rank as he is massively into religious icons. Pictures of Jesus, ... |
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| Tasha has a temper tantrum...
2005-08-03, Calcutta, India. By: tash3008 | | Just dropped by an internet cafe on my way to work so this will be quite brief hopefully! I have been quite irritable for the last couple of days and I have never found anything that winds me up as mu... |
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| More tales form the city of joy...
2005-07-30, Calcutta, India. By: tash3008 | | The last few days I seem to have settled into the heat and indeed the city slightly more. Am learning new things every day over here!
In last 3 days:
1) How to cut a pineapple
2) The non messy ... |
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| All hail Helen the fearless cockrach killer!
2005-07-29, Calcutta, India. By: tash3008 | | After all of that ‘I’m a hardcore traveller’ stuff in the last post I went home that night and there was a massive cockroach on the floor. So what did this hardcore travelling person do? Got on my cha... |
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| I'M ALIVE!!
2005-07-27, Calcutta, India. By: tash3008 | | So I arrived safe and sound!! There is no photo uploader at the internet café / shack but I’ll get them burnt onto disc in a photo shop soon as I have got some real corkers!!
I hardly know where to b... |
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 | I love Calcutta
2005-07-04, Calcutta, India. By: gabrielle2 | | Hi everyone,
Just a quick update:
We made it safely to Calcutta at one in the morning only to find no-one to pick us up. After a slightly anxious wait, and many fruitless phone calls, we finall... |
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