Blogging and photos…

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One of the problems with the photos on holiday and trying to up load them is that it is time consuming! The computers (while they claim to be broadband), aren’t that fast.

Therefore, while we are sitting here, Kym is spending his time attempting to upload the photos, while I write bits and pieces. When we get home I will re-post some of my favourites. So far my all time favorite was the one of the child running along with the tyre. It was a completely flucky shot, as I had the camerea at my side, not looking through the viewing window and just taking random shots. Some turn out.. and some don’t.

We’ve ridden the odd rickshaw or three, and I’ve also been taking random shots – will upload some when we get to a faster computer.

To see more of our photos, click on a photo which will take you to Kym’s photo page on flickr, where you can browse all the photos from India.

Waiting

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This is what I see when I am waiting….

Uploading…

Please leave this window open while the upload process completes. Meanwhile, feel free to open a new browser window and continue using Flickr. When a lot of people are uploading photos all at once, you may have to wait a little while before the photos you are currently uploading appear on Flickr.

I know you can handle the complaint…. I just wanted to share it with someone. Hopefully 6 more Bombay/Mumbai photos will be uploaded soon.

Udaipur Bridges

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Udaipur Bridges
Originally uploaded by kdt.

No no no, we’re not getting our European and Indian blogs confused, this is a picture of the beautiful lake city of Udaipur.

Remember not all the photos I have uploaded appear on the blog. Click on the Flickr Badge to see more.

Photo Shoot – City Palace

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Photo Shoot – City Palace
Originally uploaded by kdt.

While Helen has been typing her treaty on the joys of flying I have been selecting and uploading some photos! This internet cafe is faster than some. But it still takes time.

This beautiful photo of Helen was rather opportunistic. This group was actuallt in the process of being professionaly shot – not sure for what. We were side on…. By the way today we’re going to a Indian Film (part of which is known as Bollywood, there is also Tollywood and Kollywood) shoot……

Arrival in Mumbai…

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After a very short flight we arrived in Mumbai (where I am typing this from). After the usual wait at the luggage carousel (only 5 minutes!), we located the person holding our names and where lead to a waiting point for the car. Now the airport has become privately owned in recent times and is going through a major expansion. Nothing like construction!.

Anyway, we were standing there waiting with our bags when a white hearse pulled up (that is the colour used by Indians). It looked much like a station wagan with a solid piece of glass along the window area, and on the windows were the words “Resting” in traditional old English style font. Through the window we could plainly see the coffin, which was red, with an embroidered trim and cross in the centre. Stuck midway down was an address label for where it was going , and a baggage check sticker.

Really didn’t expect to see that!

flying part II…

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Apologies for stopping short with the last post. Anyway…

After the last bag check you are frisked again (females and males separated), then you can get on the plane. Once you understand it – it makes perfect logical sense.

Although there is no entertainment available on the domestic flights, I must say that thus far the flights haven’t been too bad. Okay, now I know that I am not the worlds best flyer (easier option would be to knock myself out I think, based on the sweat produced!), but the food is good too. Just wish the packets of spicy snacks they give were easier to open. Surprisingly after the person next to me couldn’t open them the attendant, whipped out her scissors (?!??!!@#@##…) and cut off the corner!!!

When we reach Mumbai airport, we had 5 hours to kill before our flight to Aurangabad. Thankfully there were at least 8 free newspapers to read. I made my way through the majority of them, within the first three hours. Anyone would of thought that I was starved for reading material while on holiday, and had not heard any of the latest news events. But to tell you the truth, on the TV the main issues in India so far have been India’s potential for the World Cup, train bombing (occurred just before we left) and the Holi festival. But there are better things to watch – like Indian music videos!

Activity in the airport is much like any other airport. If you are ever in the domestic area of Mumbai airport – do not use the internet cafe. Grab all the free papers available and read them It claims to be broadband… but it doesn’t work well (read next to useless). 2 out of the terminals are offline. 1 is for the staff to use when not talking to each other and drinking tea, and they are incredibily slow, and is a rip off at 30 rupees for 30 minutes.

Rajasthan Explained

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Some of you have wondered about our recent lack of posts. It can be explained thus…

From Jaipur we had two big days of driving. Both around 6 hours which meant we were pretty tired at the end of each day. We then had the pleasure of staying in wonderful Udaipur certainly, in our humble view, the most picturesque city we have seen on our holiday. At this point we managed to fill up our two Compact Flash cards – yes guys you’ll be seeing thousands of photos at our next slide show. So our opportunity to blog was eaten up by trying to get some CDs burned. Normally an easy task but our very friendly internet “cum” – yes that is the Indian spelling – telephone cum general store had a big nasty virus on his computer which spread to our compact flash card!! Ripper, went down the road to some young blokes, who could be in a bollywood film, to de-virs our compact flash card and burn a CD. So that is why you haven’t heard from us.

Also, it may have something to do with Jaipur Belly for one of us! Guess which one.