Kolkata - our last taste of India....
October 20th 2009 Arriving in Kolkata at 6.30am after a reasonable nights sleep on the overnight train we had a pretty scary taxi ride to our prebooked hotel. We were to discover that the taxi drivers in Kolkata were the worst ones we had seen in the whole of India. Most of their cars were decrepit, in fact the government had already ordered hundreds off the roads only a fortnight before - it was only the better on
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