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Date: 28th December 2005
Place: Kolkata
The 28th was a quiet day, both Monica and I were struck with diarrhea (not literally I hasten to add) and so we spent much of the morning at the hotel. By mid afternoon I was feeling better and went to stretch my legs.
I went along AJC Bose [...]
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Date: 27th December, 2005
Place: Kolkata
On the 27th, Monica’s cousin visited us. He wanted to take us out to buy something (this is the done thing in India, it’s not polite to refuse). We took a cab to New Market again (actually, only partway, as he had an argument with the cabbie and [...]
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Date: Boxing Day 2005
Place: Kolkata
For those people in countries which don’t have boxing day, it’s the 26th December.
After breakfast Monica went to the hotel gym, and I went out for a walk.
I left the hotel and went along Camac St, turning right into Shakespeare Sarani. I passed Kala Mandir and made my [...]
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Date: Christmas Day
Place: Kolkata
We spent Christmas day in Kolkata at a place called Nicco park, a little way out of town, past Science City. This is an amusement park, with lots of the usual sorts of rides, dodgems, a small roller coast, a water slide and so forth. It really is a [...]
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Date: Christmas Eve
Place: Kolkata
It’s been quite surreal, on TV there have been Bengali santas selling carpets, and outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in Kolkata there is a nativity scene, but apart from this we’ve essentially escaped the whole Christmas shenanigans.
One of the main things today was a trip to Rash Behari, a nearby [...]
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