Lake Gardens, India
The first few days in Kolkata have been noisy colourful and interesting. The streets are filled with food stalls and stands selling everything from shoes and clothes to votive flowers to what looked like imitation guns. Maybe they were real! Kolkata is not the most beautiful of cities but it does have some attractively tumbledown colonial buildings from the days when it was the capital of the British raj. The exception is the Victoria Memorial (photo attahed) wh...