Monthly Archives: January 2006

Jams Boand 007 – Kohalpur

By justin | Published: January 28, 2006
Jams Boand driver 007 of Maharajah’s autorickshaw service in Kohlapur is a lovely chappie. We went the Maharajah’s palace today. The palace is described as gothic indo-saracen or something and it’s pretty cool. It houses a museum containing the Maharajah’s many kill trophies including a stool made out of an elephant foot, an entire family [...]
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Hey Baba

By justin | Published: January 22, 2006
We’re in Pune now where the maroon guys from the Polyphonic Spree get their clothes. what are they up to – Osho Meditation(wikipedia entry here). There’s also laughing sessions in some park by the river.
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Mumbai

By justin | Published: January 20, 2006
We’re in Mumbai, just about to go out to Elephanta Island for the rest of the day and probably heading inland to Pune tomorrow. Will post some pics soon. I think the Taj Mahal Hotel here has wi-fi.
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almost outta here

By justin | Published: January 15, 2006
we’re leaving our flat in Edinburgh kinda soon. Wish I’d got to La Partenope, First Coast and the little sushi place one last time. I’ll be back I guess.
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Last Fish Supper

By justin | Published: January 13, 2006
Today is my last fish supper at The Gold Sea, one of the better chippies in Edinburgh. I got my car back this morning from Polwarth Garage so I have a wheels to get down to London and to the airport and get all our gear out of our flat. Now I just need to [...]
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get Bent Bentley’s

By justin | Published: January 6, 2006
so I checked out a few hotels in Mumbai and Bentley’s looked ok. There website kinda sucked but that’s OK. I sent a booking enquiry and got a jumbly email back asking me to fill out loads of info including my full credit card details. This was from a hotmail address. I don’t really fancy [...]
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drift.net.nz 06

By justin | Published: January 6, 2006
I’ve been thinking about doing something to drift.net.nz for a while now. e107 wasn’t really suiting my needs anymore, although I’ll still be keeping tabs on it. I find it too tedious to use for blogging and all I can usually be arsed doing is dropping a link now and then in the chatbox. When [...]
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