Lord of the Rings Review

Categories: All things Cultured, Exploring the World, Toronto

Wow! what a show! I had the chance to go to the opening of the Lord of the Rings theatre show yesterday in Toronto – unbelievable! This has got to be the best show that I have seen by far – (before this, my favourite was the London version of The Producers). The whole evening … Read More

Culture shock…

Categories: Exploring the World

i’m sitting at heathrow, about to get on a flight back to Toronto – a bit surreal. a few days ago i was in a land of squat toilets (i still don’t understand how you’re supposed to use these), Bisleri water, bucket showers, rooftop beds, and daredevil rickshaw drivers – and now i’m in London … Read More

Forget Goa!

Categories: Exploring the World, India

Diu is way better! definitely the next hot spot – was an old portuguese place like goa but it doesn’t have the crazy hippie crowd. On day one, I went to Georges – he has a hotel connected to the back of the St. Thomas Church – for a 100 rupees, you get unlimited bbq … Read More

Guju land

Categories: Exploring the World, India

To get between some of the cities, its quicker to take a bus rather than a train. But after taking the buses in Rajasthan though, I was a little worried and wasn’t in the mood to fight with three other guys to get a bed. but guju land has got this covered too… the sleeper … Read More

Kuutchi Kuutchi Coo…

Categories: Exploring the World, India

so this is maybe a bit morbid to say, but I think that maybe the rest of India needs a few minor (non-fatal) earthquakes… Kuutch and Gujarat in general, is super developed and parts actually look like it could be parts of California or Europe. check how developed the roads are. Great infrasture – they’ve … Read More

Ahmedabad

Categories: Exploring the World, India

What is there to do here?? This is the first stop that everyone has to do to go to train into Gujarat or to go from Rasasthan to Bombay – no wonder no stays to see the rest of Gujarat. I’ve been here since 6 am this morning and I’m bored out of my mind… … Read More

bond-saheb

Categories: Exploring the World, India

i’m sitting in Udaipur watching octopussy – never seen the movie before (it is crap by the way), but this city is fixated with the fact that the movie was filmed here and so every night there are about 10 different restaurants showing the movie. basically you sit in a restaurant (the one we’re in … Read More

hitching rides in the land of kings

Categories: Exploring the World, India

so it turns out that hitchhiking in India is not that easy… i started out my journey taking the overnight sleeper class train from jaisalmar to jaipur and arrived at 6am. so by that time i was already shattered. I had to waste about 3 hours until my first meeting with a shop owner (i’ll … Read More

Can it be real?

Categories: Exploring the World, India

I’m getting the impression that a lot of the places in Rajasthan that are listed in the Lonely Planet are faked to be really backward (to the naivity of LP writers) so that people get to see stereotypical images of India. We went on a Camel Safari with Ganesh Tours (listed in the Lonely Planet) … Read More