Archive for 'Mumbai'
mumbai’s fine balance
Days 117-120 : In India, I’ve been reading Rohinton Mistery’s A fine balance. Set partly in Mumbai, it’s a moving story about four characters whose livelihoods are bound together in an unlikely way. Struggling to make their way in the world, they’re living on the edge in every sense, with the slightest external shock having […]
Posted: October 27th, 2007 under India, Mumbai.
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residency hotel andheri, mumbai
Day 1: Our first night out of Australia and the Residency Hotel Andheri lived up to our relatively low expectations for Asian budget airport hotels (it’s a tightly contested genre) and probably exceeded them in some aspects. What we really needed was sleep - and the hotel delivered.
Check-in was painless, staff were generally helpful […]
Posted: June 27th, 2007 under India, Hotel, Mumbai.
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arriving in Mumbai - hello and goodbai!
Day 1: Arriving in Mumbai was pretty much what we expected - chaotic. There was no obvious taxi rank but there was no shortage of hustlers to take us to our hotel.
It’s a matter of honour that we weren’t out of the airport for more than five minutes before we had our first dodgy […]
Posted: June 27th, 2007 under India, Mumbai.
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leaving sydney airport
It doesn’t quite feel real but Kate and I are sitting here in the Qantas Club lounge waiting to be called for the flight to Mumbai.
Posted: June 24th, 2007 under Mumbai, Planning, Flights.
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a tale of two cities: mumbai and oslo
On our first two nights away we’ll be staying in two cities that are among the richest and poorest in the world.
Posted: June 11th, 2007 under Norway, India, Hotel, Hostel, Oslo, Mumbai, Accommodation, Flights.
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