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A tangent

With the joyous words “Fifteen rupees an hour” still ringing in my ears (raw from desert sand and extortionate tourist prices), I’ll proceed to tell you nothing about what we’ve been doing, but rather to relate an episode that happened the other night on our train to Delhi from Jaipur.
 A few seats down from us, [...]

Well, I had intended to be sitting astride a camel at this point, trotting through the Rajasthani desert ready for a night under the stars. As you’ve probably guessed, this is not the case (the Indian obsession with technology hasn’t, sadly, extended to wireless camelback networking). Due to an unexpected storm last night, the other [...]

A multimedia experience

Thanks to the computer skills of a kind Couchsurfing soul, there are now several *new photos* on my Flickr page…Unfortunately not all (well, Ok, none) have captions but the ancient ruins are Hampi whereas the flashy cityscape is Mumbai. Durh.
 There are also some pictures from our visit to our Project Trust friends in Valparai, Tamil [...]

The auto drivers of Mumbai must, surely, have the blackest lungs of anyone in the world.
Apologies for the recent lack of news. We’re now in Mumbai (if you refer to the map, you’ll find that we’re now on the West coast, having effectively completed our Southern leg - although, if, like Mungo, you’ve never strayed [...]




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