In Santi Niketan it has become a routine to ride a bike carelessly around the villages nearby, it is very good relax for me in the end of the day. At theater house I could get closer to rise harvesting process, all by hand, one by one... It also makes it taste much better knowing that it has been growing just outside the dinning room. Cooking with Sadu can be as joyful as riding a bike. He is a great cook and makes sure we all eat healthy meals, though the dinner time... well Sadu is in no hurry. Day before last he gave me a task to buy 1 kilo of chicken and a wine - yes Sadu likes his booze and smoke - although I could not find the wine shop I managed to get a chicken to meet his expectations, they slaughtered it in front of me so it was very fresh and... dead! No sight for vegetarian. Happy again to cook my favorite green-beans-creamy soup, it was good enough to be eaten by everybody, or perhaps they just did not want to touch my fragile cooking-feelings. I also visited the famous Tagore's university and I had good feelings about that. Very peaceful like whole village and relaxed place, great idea for learning environment.
Btw I want to say that I can not be much bothered taking pictures with digital camera, it is a hassle to use both, so I will present pictures from my film camera ones I am back, if the films survive my intense travel loads. Already have troubles with the other Yashica, the exposure-meter device does not want to work, if you have any ideas please do not hesitate to suggest (i hope it is only metal plate - poor contacts).
Issue raises when you want to book a long distance train, as it might be booked out for weeks, depending on destination. Fortunately I found the rail ticketing office, where I could book a ticket to Mumbai, bloody Mumbai.
I gave my farewell to Santi Niketan and took a train in the evening back to Kolkata, where I spent a night at the station, with many other 'waiting people'... It is actually not bad to do it this way, they have according facilities (shower I appreciated the most). At 8:20am my train left the Howrah(Kolkata) station - I had a berth in a sleeper for 656 Rupees. Such a journey can really drain a body especially if adding a digestion problems and not proper diet. Fortunately I bought nice book of Mr Tagore's selected short stories which kept me well entertained. Yes, I managed to read almost whole book as we arrived to Mumbai 2 days later at around 2 in the morning. Then I had not too many choices, I could stay at the station with a lot of other people but as my diarrhea worsened in the meantime I decided to find a cheap hotel. I do not know how cheap or expensive it was in the end but I payed 600 rupees for a room with a towel instead of bathroom, funny but sufficient. In the morning I had to argue over 10 Rupees when they charged me 50 instead of 40 for omelet - which was the price in menu in my room, though in the end I found out that the prices they had were all mixed up... I can only say this is very typical, but they payed me back.
And now I am so looking forward the beaches of Goa...
Hi man! Diarrhea? Is it you new camera make?.. :P
ReplyDeleteanyway, do you think you'd be able to cope with this having some water purification stuff, like one of those filtering bottles?
Hey man!)
ReplyDelete1 ==Diarrhea (from the Greek διάρροια meaning "flowing through"), also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day.== or that is what untrustable but mighty peoples' web encyclopedia says, that is also what I meant by it :*
2 camera is so far doing OK though I had to manage a minor fix(with exposure meter(battery metal contacts are oxidating))
3 most of the water I drink is filtered or bought from shop bottled
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