My Travels
In keeping with my blog title, my first official post will be none other than a review of my trip to India! This week I just got back from the city of joy, so here is my experience of the two and a half week trip… My first thought when I stepped out of Calcutta airport, apart from the weather (it’s so humid out there you are practically swimming every time you walk outside), was the sheer number of people. Four and a half million people in Calcutta alone- I have never seen so many shades of brown! Perhaps even more striking is the number of these people in poverty – in India, poverty means poverty : people sleeping on the streets on nothing but a dirty plastic bag they scavenged from a rubbish dump, children sent out to beg for money, men who have lost limbs to disease forced into manual labour because they have no other option… seeing it on charity adverts on TV is not enough to prepare you for the actual thing, and even though I see it every time I visit, I can never get used to