my pack has finally joined me in Kolkata!
Given that its hovering around 30c with frequent heavy rainstorms the contents (90% of which is thermal underwear and a down sleeping bag) are of little use to me, but after more than 7 years of travels on 5 different continents i've become quite attached to it.
Actually being reunited with my pack was an adventure in itself... Indian Airlines called to say it would be arriving on a cargo flight from Delhi at 7pm, however due to a taxi strike (thought i'd left all that behind me in Paris...) I had to wait until the next morning before getting back out to the airport. To cut a very long story short I spent more than 5 hours bouncing between various offices and bureaucracies filling in countless forms before my pack was finally handed over to me (looking like it'd made the journey strapped to a donkey's arse).
It does however contain a few of the bare essentials that without which life has been tough the last couple of days; tongs (flip-flops) which are essential in shared bathrooms; tiger balm, the only stuff that really works on bug bites; a headtorch to deal with the frequent blackouts; and a sarong that doubles, or even triples, as a wrap, bedsheet and a towel.
Finally with my pack back I've changed hostels, changed clothes and can recommence my travels, starting with the overnight train to Darjeeling tonight.
3 comments:
You are truly the last action heroine .... next stop: a wes anderson film.
I beg to differ... There are quite literally hundreds of thousands of independant travellers out here, many of them pushing the boundaries much further than I. Thanks for the comment though, always good to get some feedback. K
I hope I didn't give you 'lost bag fever' in my brief meeting with you last month. My bag of clothes eventually showed up - back at the office, the day I got home... I managed to improvise while I was out there though, with great amounts of borrowing of stuff... Hope you have great travels out there...
Chipps xx
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