Archive for April 3rd, 2008
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Last days in India
April 2, 2008 - Delhi, India
I’m writing this on the train to Delhi, hoping that in this move from camel-safari fort town to capital city I’ll find a higher quality internet café or even a WiFi connection and then I’ll be able to post everything at last. {For those who were excited by the camel […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Jaisalmer
March 28, 2008 – Jaisalmer, India
Arrived at 6 this morning in Jaisalmer (fort town in the middle of camel filled deserts) to search for the promised hotel driver with the sign reading ‘Madey’ (Evy didn’t figure he’d heard the name correctly on the phone last night) or at least a basic hotel sign reading ‘Hotel […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Hot
March 27, 2008 – Jodhpur India
It is hot.
Hot as in a small river of sweat trickles down my calf the moment one leg so much as thinks of lying crossed on the other.
Hot as in articles of clothing insistently bunch up and stick to your body at the creases – knees, armpits and elbows being […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Quotes
March 26, 2008 - Udaipur, India
Current favourite quotes from local males:
To both of us:
‘What country is suffering without you?’
To me:
‘If I could rearrange the alphabet I’d put I together with U’
To Evy:
‘Are you a virgin?’
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Octopussy
March 22, 2008 - Udaipur, India
Have arrived in Udaipur, host to the film shooting of the James Bond film ‘Octopussy’ - as everyone has been eager to tell us since the minute we left the train. There are nightly screenings all over town, and apparently there are some places that just play it continuously… […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Buddhist IV’s
March 20, 2008 - Bodhgaya, Varanasi, Jaipur – India
(have kind of slept our way through all 3 places, unfortunately)
I just ate a lovely meal of Farfalle with Tomato sauce, a mixed mango & orange juice, and fresh salad*. This sounds ridiculously bland and uninteresting, especially for India, but it was extremely special for me […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Train Connections & Touts
March 16, 2008 – Kolkata, India
We missed our train connection from Kolkata to Bodhgaya. We were at the train station 45 minutes prior to departure, but due to completely misleading signs and unknowledgeable officials we were sent to wait at the wrong platform and by the time it had all been sorted out, the […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Getting Scammed
March 14, 2008 – Kolkata, India
Please, join us for another episode of Lemming One and Lemming Two… I have nothing to say in our defense. I don’t know how we could have been so stupid. All it would have taken is an extra minute of thought. They have it down to […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Nightlife in Kolkata
March 13, 2008 - Kolkata, India
Four years ago, Faisal, a fellow-filmmaker and friend of mine, left Vancouver to go to Bangladesh and India to shoot a documentary on sweatshop labour. This year he was invited to screen it in Bangladesh, and then was interested in coming to India again as well. We ended […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Flight to Kolkata
March 10, 2008 – Kolkata, India
We were recommended to leave the apartment at 5:30am this morning, by the latest 6am, in order to get to the airport in time for our flight.
5:27am - my vibrating but non-ringing phone succeeds in semi-waking me up. I wonder briefly if it has been ‘ringing’ since 5am, our […]
