Kolkata was our last stop in India before we moved on to Nepal. We’d heard and read that this was going to be an intense end to our time in India. However, Kolkata is remarkably unobtrusive: I think that I was hassled by one taxi driver over our two nights there (no tuk-tuk drivers, yay!). In fact, if I had to live in India – and this is a really, really big “if”, like a million-dollar-a-year salary "if" – I’d live in Kolkata. Granted, as in Mumbai, we didn’t visit the slums, but Kolkata has a fair amount of street signs, nice architecture in parts, and a public transit system that is not overly difficult to follow. We visited several of the popular sights, but unfortunately inadvertently chose Monday for our day of visit when all
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