August 2011
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July 2011
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2006 World Trip - Calcutta (again)
Knowing that Calcutta is a living nightmare, we booked ourselves into a luxury hotel which cost us less than twenty pounds per night - and ensured before booking that we would be able to watch England’s first match on ESPN.
We were still ill and continued to feel sorry for ourselves, but began to eat one meal per day.
Feeling ever so slightly better, until we had to dash to the toilet...
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2006 World Trip - Delhi
Still feeling horrible we made it by train back to Delhi and our air-conditioned room in the +40’s heat. Where we kept our fridge stocked with lovely cold mineral water, which was all we could manage. Every three days since we were first sick we ate a couple of pieces of toast, which we wolfed down, and then raced to the toilets. Mark lost 2 stone and began to look very ill - not that...
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2006 World Trip - Dehra Dun & Mussorie
Dehra Dun and Mussourie
The next day we headed north to Dehra Dun. We had two options for reaching it, firstly to get back on the train and go South to Delhi, stay a night in Delhi then get back on a train and go North to Dehra Dun; or get on a bus for 5 hours.
The bus was the obvious choice, but even so we were quite apprehensive about travelling on one of these contraptions. reason one,...
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2006 World Trip - Darjeeling, Gantok, Sikkim
Warning. Long blog entry. You might want to do it in stages…
After the last blog entry we’ve been so busy that we haven’t had the chance to update it, and at several times we didn’t think we’d ever see a computer again to be able to update it.
Calcutta to Darjeeling
So starting where we left off, and you might want to make yourself comfortable.
We...
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2006 World Trip - Calcutta
Upon waking in our hotel room on the first morning in India, we were slightly put out to find that Anna had been bitten by bed-bugs again. They seem to be really attracted to Anna which caused little jealousy from Mark.
We stepped out of our hot hotel room and immediately were engulfed by the local heat which was well into the 40’s. The humidity only made it worse which on that day...
