Blogs from Maharashtra, India, Asia - page 136

We have already missed Kerela while we are enjoying the beatiful beaches of Goa. Goan food is also delicious as Kerela food. Good quality prawns are catched in Goa and they are sent even to south Kerela. We usually preffered sea food we felt sad when we left Goa. It was a nice 13 hrs. journey by night train to Mumbai. We were shocked by the crowds we faced. We dropped at CST station which may be concidered at the center of Mumbai. The train we left Mumbai, started from a station (Bandra Terminus) far apart from the center. Our recommedation to the foreign travellers is to get their ticket from "Churgegate Station" which is very near to the CST station. Foreign Tourist Counter, First Floor, Window 28. This office works from 9.00 AM to 5.00 ... read more

In my emails home, the word I generally use to describe my flights is 'uneventful'. It certainly doesn't apply this time! As both of our flights left the same night, Joel and I went to the airport together. Mine was the earlier flight, so I checked in well ahead of time, located what I thought was my boarding gate and then went back to wait with Joel. After a leisurely dinner and coffee, we wandered down to the gate, reluctantly said our tearful farewells (no, really there was just a lot of manly back-slapping and hand-shaking!) and I passed through my boarding gate... only to find it wasn't actually my boarding gate after all. Walking increasingly quickly down a number of corridors and round numerous corners, I finally came in sight of my elusive gate. I ... read more

In Mumbai now and having a really bad time!! We got picked up from the airport yesterday and taken to our hotel. It is in the most horrible area - definitely down town Mumbai and the hotel is horrible (like really disgusting with windows that don't shut properly, broken lights etc). And the hotel was full of local people, there were no tourists to be seen anywhere. We felt completely distraught and went straight to the Internet cafe to find the numbers of the airline (to try and bring our flight forward), the number for STA (who we'd booked the hotel through - we've already started on the complaint letter and taken pictures of the hotel!) and the number for the hotel where staying in in Bankok (to see if we can stay a day earlier). ... read more

Our flight was delayed at Goa this afternoon by about 45 minutes, there was nothing to do at the airport at all... We arrived in Mumbai and our driver was there as promised, relatively pain free, Mumbai airport was definately more busy than Delhi, we didn't get warned about this one. We arrived at the hotel, checked in and then got to our room- I thought he was joking when he opened the door.. The room was absolutely filthy, damp covered the walls, the air-conditioning unit was falling off the wall and window was jammed open- plus swarm of mosquitos flying around... So the room was a mess, we could deal with that- even though we thought it couldn't get ant worse than our room in New Delhi, here it was, we were in a dump! ... read more

January 6 to January 18 I just munched a delicious egg omelet in the middle of a dirty, loud, crowded and smelly intersection. The egg stand is the size of a small closet stacked head to toe with eggs, 1000 cracked a day. After the chai but before the eggs I was witness to a horseback wedding procession complete with a 15 member drum and horn band and a push cart generator powering giant house lamps camped on top of small children's heads. The groom was very Lawrence of Arabia, complete with curly mustache. I nearly fell off my cracked plastic stool when something much bigger than an M-80 was joyously detonated behind my back. By the time I'd finished the eggs I was witness to a tuk tuk accident, the second bystander I've seen hit, ... read more