India Varanasi — No comments
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May 08
All hail to the porcelain throne, for never in our entire lives has it meant so much to us, as it did in the city of Varanasi. This city forced us into the realization that the porcelain throne was indeed – KING! We, like all other travelers, became obsessed not with finding porcelain kings, but rather trying to avoid them at all cost. Why? Because once one left ones hotel, there were no public restrooms and if you happened to find one, you instantly became sorry that you did. The porcelain thrones are…….DISGUSTING!!!! To give an example, I once had no choice but to use one at a restaurant. We had already ordered our food and were waiting on our meal. I won’t describe it, but all I know is that what I saw as so nauseating, that I immediately returned to our table, sat down and started to cry my heart out. This was my first of three mental breakdowns in India. Charles immediately ordered me an illegal beer (alcohol consumption is against the Hindu religion, but they will supply it to tourist ‘under the table’). “Drink it all down, dear”. I threw my head back and downed it, in a few gulps. I wanted a second one. The waiter asked if we could wait for about 10 minutes cause he had to put one in the fridge to get cold.
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India - Udaipur & Jaipur — No comments
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May 08
IMG_2119, originally uploaded by nycduncan.
This picture was taken in Jaipur where the bombs went off about a month later. This a wonderful family we met visiting from London.
India / India - Udaipur & Jaipur — No comments
14
May 08
Do you know last month 6 bombs went off in 15 minutes leaving at least 80 people dead, in Jaipur? Well this happened in the Pink City. And that is exactly where we were one month before it happened. Talk about narrow escape huh!!!??? Anyway this sort of thing, you can’t run or hide from. It was terribly sad to hear about it.
We loved Udaipur. We bought tons of jewelery here and even had some custom made. It was ridiculously cheap.
Ajay and his dad, in picture above, made our rings – Udaipur.
We stayed in a small and quaint town at a beautiful hotel right on the famous Lake Pichola. From our hotel grounds we could see The Lake Palace Hotel where Octopussy, the James Bond movie was filmed.
The big joke is that because Octopussy was shot here, practically EVERY restaurant shows Octopussy EVERY Single DAY without fail at 7:30pm. I repeat, Every Single Day at 7:30pm!!!!!! No other movie.
Anyway word spread about us through the town pretty quickly. One day we told some people that I was from the West Indies (for those who do not know, people from the Caribbean are called West Indians because Christopher Columbus thought he had found India…. silly!!!!) and Charles from America. By day two people started calling out to us as we passed – “hey West Indies and America”!!
