I’m sitting in Breach Candy Hospital – the Lonely Planet lists this as the ‘best hospital in Mumbai, perhaps even all of India’… pretty decrepit if you ask me. anyway, I got here at 4:30 in the afternoon and went straight to the Emergency room – the entrance goes directly into the room with beds … Read More
Nizams Hyderabad is full of them! everywhere you look there is a stall or shop selling bangles – I bought a bunch of them and prob got robbed blind but i had just gone to the Mecca Masjid so figured that karma was on my side. This was the first mosque I’ve gone to in … Read More
I got on my first train ride today (last-night) – three-tier sleeper. not that bad actually. There are 8-beds per cabin – two sets of 3-tier bunks on one side of the cabin and a two-tier bunk on the other side – but no doors and the walkway runs through the center of the cabin, … Read More
GandhiAshesPune Everything I read described Pune as being the cleaner, milder, summer retreat city for Bombay (Mumbai) – but i was kinda disappointed. the city seemed just as polluted, the hotels just as expensive (for worse quality), and the traffic just as congested. First night was at Hotel Ritz – not quite on the same … Read More
ok ok – i know i haven’t emailed since leaving for india and many of you have been emailing to find out where i am (i am assuming it was because of concern…) – so first, yup, i’m ok. and second, sorry for not replying directly. what can i say, i’m lazy… 🙂 anyway, after … Read More
Just got back from Goa – i think there should be some sort of lawsuit against speedo for selling suits to people who should not be wearing them… first nite we were in north Goa in Calangute – wow, what a difference from the last time i came. the last time i came was in Feb … Read More
I finally caved and went to McDonald’s… amazing! i think in most McDonald’s they have specific machines to help make their food, in India, i’m sure they have a ‘Ma’ in the back making the food. The me…
The last 7 days seem like they were 7 months! Half of me thinks that I could do this a few more days, and the half of me knows that I’m at my limit!
Aside from the bubble blister I had on my big to…
I never have my camera when I need it! As part of our climb today, we had to rock climb up the side of a cliff to get to some temple caves, with images of Shiva, carved into the side of the mountain….
I woke up this morning and was dying! Every muscle was killing me when I got up … including ones I didn’t know I had…
Our hike today was supposed to be a ‘easy’, flat hike… i think ‘flat’ might mea…