See previous and next. 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 [...]
This post is part of a series of 19 posts which begins with A Passage to India, the latest post in the series is Back in Delhi.
See previous and next. 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 [...]
This post is part of a series of 19 posts which begins with A Passage to India, the latest post in the series is Back in Delhi.
It has been a very annoying day. I wandered around my local county town today. Musak everywhere, the number of times I heard things like ‘Rocking around the Christmas Tree’ was unbelievable. The forced jollity pissed me off quite a lot. The same musak all the time. In the end I grabbed a ‘coffee’ from [...]
Boxing Day in India
This post is part of a series of 19 posts which begins with A Passage to India, the latest post in the series is Back in Delhi.