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INDIA IS SUCH A DIVERSE COUNTRY, WITH ITS POPULATION EXCEEDING THE BILLION MARK ITS NO WONDER. THERE ARE MANY WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS PLACE, ITS HECTIC,CHAOTIC, DIRTY, SO POLLUTED BUT THEN ITS ALSO BREATHTAKING, IN ALL THE NOISE AND MADNESS ARE GEMS OF PLACES LIKE THE TEMPLES, THE DIFFERENT LANDSCAPES AND SOME GENUINELY FRIENDLY […]

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Filed under: Personal and India

First off I wanna say that I am very thankful that we decided to go to visit my friend Tongie in Kolkata and fly out from here after the bomb blasts in Dehli just 3 hours ago. We would’ve been staying in the Para Ganj area tonight if we had’ve decided to fly from there […]

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Filed under: Personal and India

HEY GUYS
IM FINALLY BACK TO FEELING BETTER.YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.IT HAPPENED ON THURSDAY.ITS SUCH A GREAT FEELING.SO I ALSO HAD AN APPERTITE BACK.THANK GOD.I WAS LOSING A BIT TOO MUCH WEIGHT.SO AS A TREAT WE DECIDED TO HEAD AND GET PIZZA.THIS WAS OUR FIRST FASTFOOD SINCE WE GOT HERE.WE HAVE BEEN QUITE ADVENTUROUS WITH OUR FOOD ALWAYS […]

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Filed under: Personal and India and Health

Forgot to add the most important rules of all, (isn’t that always the way of things) and that of course is your approach.
When ya go travelling you have to keep an open mind. We can never entirely get past our on bias but we can try to see things from another point of view, be […]

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Filed under: Rules of Travel

HEY GUYS
SORRY I HAVENT BEEN IN TOUCH IN AWHILE BUT I GOT SOME TYPE OF BUG OR MAYBE FOOD POISONING.SO THE LAST 3DAYS IVE BEEN SPENDING TIME PUKING AND NOT LEAVING THE TOILET.I REALLY LOOK AND FEEL LIKE SHIT.BUT TEE HAS BEEN GREAT A REAL MOTHER TERESE.SHES GONE OUT EVERYDAY FOR TOILET ROLL, TOAST AND […]

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Filed under: Health

We meant to put these up when we were in Del Boy Dehli but completely forgot and now they’re sopping wet and I can hardly read them but here goes. They’re in no particular order.
- Be specific about what you want because not everyone understands, “Ah whatever” or you’ll get something particularly over-priced
- Always have […]

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Well there isn’t actually all that much substantial I can say about Kolkata cos we haven’t been up to anything major. The best thing we did was yesterday when we went out to visit Lisa and Kathleen at the Hope Foundation. This is a school and home for young girls and it was so great […]

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Filed under: India