We flew in style for the first time in months. Forgot you can actually get a meal on a plane, we had been on so many budget airlines. Jet Airways I do recommend. Landing in Kolkata, it was time to see what India was all about. Quite a cool town actually. Have heard horror stories of Kolkata, but we thought it was wonderful. Yeh it is big, populated, polluted, and crazy, but it had its own charm. Our first hotel room however did not! Bit of a dump, but the best we could find in the area. Did a tour of city next day and saw the Victoria Memorial, now a huge museum. Completed with marble, same as used on Taj Mahal. Kolkata was once the capitol of Great Britain's Indian Empire so a lot of
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