Thursday, July 1, 2010

Trips (and beer!)

Someone complained that there were three blog posts in a row without a mention of beer. I'm afraid that could've been possible. So let's make sure this one doesn't make the same mistake: beer beer beer.

Yes, I got some beer yesterday. We have a new Finnish guy, Pyry, here at the office who came two days ago. So me, Tani and him went for some beers at a nearby bar. And it's a cheap place: 90 rupees for a big beer (66cl). And we found a new beer which was actually quite good: Haywards 5000. Unfortunately it doesn't have 5000 percents of alcohol but only something like 7-8. (No way to know how much, they only tell here "below 8 percents of alcohol" for the strong beers).

Our yesterday's bar. Not the most idyllic, but most of them aren't...

Anyway. As I already mentioned in my facebook status, I bought flight tickets to Mumbai with Tani. 9. - 13.7. Total about 10000 rupees, so 2500 rupees for one person one way. Not a bad price I think. Still people wondered here at the office why we didn't take a train. Well, it takes something like 30 hours to Goa, so to Mumbai it would be probably around 20 hours. Uh, no thanks.

It seems like Mumbai is a nice city. Or, well, at least more developed than this nomadic clay village. I think the trip will be quite nice, seeing some intelligent places. And at least it's different, no need to stay here all the time. I'll let you know what it was like.

Also, some people are going to Agra this weekend. And yes, Agra is the village with Taj Mahal. I'll try to stick my head in that group (I have a their phone number!) and go take the must-have photo of me in front of the hut. It takes maybe 5 hours to go there in a bus and that seems to be a really short trip by local standards. No idea yet if we will stay there for the night, but probably not as I think there's nothing to see besides the big hut.

Another trip that I started thinking is to Kalkutta (Kolkata). Seemed like a nice place aswell and most importantly they fly there directly from Jaipur. Checked the ticket prices, it's about 7000 rupees per person, return trip. But this trip will have to wait for a little while. (I'm a taxi driver in Kalkutta....dum di dum...)

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