1. Tables with one chair Travelling alone means you frequently find yourself eating alone. No big deal until you walk into the restaurant and get directed to… the table with one chair. There is nothing I hate more. Oh yeah hold on there is… when you are happily seated at a table with more than one chair when mid-curry an…
Tag: Calcutta
Final Stop in India…
The only time I ever feel nervous when travelling is before a night journey – this time I get dropped off at a large, dirty and crowded Calcutta train station for the night train up past Bangladesh towards Nepal. The train rolls into the station at exactly 11pm and I begin the search for my carriage and…
Calcutta Days
So it wasn’t love at first sight – Calcutta that is – my night time arrival and the worst hotel ever put a stop to that, but the coming days in the old capital city of India proved there’s more to this place than first meets the eye. The warm and friendly people, the yummy street food and melting…
Sleeping streets of Calcutta
Calcutta at 11 o’clock on a Tuesday night. Not my usual choice of arrival time, but it was unavoidable. Sleeping bodies lined the streets…5, 10, 15 in a row lying perpindicular to the crumbling buildings while shoeless shirtless destitutes rummage through garbage around abandoned bicycles and rickshaws. My taxi careers through the bumpy streets avoiding the worrying number of vehicles with no…
Scottish Girl Runs 