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Things we learnt in India
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No doesn't actually mean No in India...it simply means, please keep asking me until I change my mind
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Its VERY weird seeing loads of teenage boys walking round holding hands and hugging each other all the time. Someone should point them in the direction of the nearest girl's school.
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Expensive hotels are your friend. Whether you need a good meal or simply a clean toilet,
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Everybody is on the make....at least the beggars are being honest about it.
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There are no town planners anywhere in India.
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Apparently 45% of Indians have there own home......now when the basis of a home is a piece of tin over your head, then you get an idea how bad a lot of stuff is.
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Its great being a bloke...... I can't imagine how women put up with using squat toilets all the time
All in all, I am glad that we went to India, although I wouldn't be in a hurry to go back. One thing that it taught us is that you need to make your own mind up about a place, if we had listened to everyone else, then we would have avoided Calcutta altogether, which would have been a shame. I think it will remain a hard place to be a tourist for a long time as it doesn't have the infrastructure, or facilities in a lot of places, but when done well, its fantastic. As the guidebooks say, if you can travel in India, you can travel anywhere.
I'm also slightly scared that they have nuclear weapons....it says a lot when I am actually more trusting of George Bush to have a big red button !!!!
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