On the road to nowhere
March 4th 2008 After the fun of Kolkata we hit the road to Puri, a "beach" town 12 hours south. Our train pulled in at 5:30am (never a good time of day to arrive in a strange town) to be greeted by a crazed rickshaw driver telling us that 2 local boys were after us with knives as big as our arms. But madam, for 50 rupees extra he would somehow be able to protect us from these nasty men - how exactly we don't
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