Calcutta: Street life, Mother Teresa, Bridges, & Thunderstorms


Some highlights while exploring Calcutta on my own:



Tanmay then picked me up later that afternoon and took me and Steffi out on a boat ride by Vidyasagar Setu Bridge. He warned us not to touch or drink the water as “it has the very same consistency of snot.”


 

Now off I go to Varanasi to explore the Ganges (screw you Glenn Beck!).

(If you don’t understand the Glenn Beck reference, watch this.)

- At time of posting in Calcutta / Dum Dum, it was 71.6 °F -

Humidity: 88% | Wind Speed: n/a | Cloud Cover: few clouds

Hello from New Delhi Airport
INDIA: Already enamoured

3 Comments

  1. U have such lovely photos up here..thanx for sharing..

  2. :) of course i thought of you when I wrote that. happy birthday!

  3. Calvin, I love your last sentence <3

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