Blogs from Garia, West Bengal, India, Asia

Hello guys..This is the first time I am writing something in an open forum and that too knowing I am not good at this. Neither I m a highly experienced trekker to give you a great exposure to it but there are some experiences which are worth sharing .I have been in mountains before hiking ,trekking..but this experience was something else. I would like to call it a small expedition. We 7 Bengali friends leading the normal Bengali lives have one thing in common passion for mountains ,adventures and trekking. Amongst us 5 were having previous experience of trekking and I count myself in that too. We planned to go for Pangarchulla peak summit in April. Checked different videos in YouTube and that gave us the thrill to go for it. After lots of planning and ... read more

So, here I am, almost half way through my TEFL experience. I can’t believe it’s getting close to two weeks since I left the UK. It feels like only a heartbeat ago, but also an eternity since I was sitting on the plane at Manchester Airport watching the snow fall and wondering if we’d actually ever take off. Thankfully we did, albeit 4 hours later than planned. Two pretty uneventful plane rides later, I arrived at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhash Bose International Airport, or Dum Dum airport as it is better known. I was relieved to see my bag appear on the carousal (I never trust that it will be successfully checked all the way through). Immigration was simple, and I was soon in the arrivals lounge. As I eagerly looked for a signboard baring my name, ... read more