Day 122 (Mon 6 Nov) - Kolkata

Sarb was up early and was soon found banging on the door of Jo and Disco's room.

After getting ourselves sorted Subayesh, from Indian Moments the company that we had booked our Sunderbans tour through turned up. He had arrived to get our passports so that he could sort out special permits that allowed us to travel to the Sunderbans.

We wandered off and had some brekky before trying to get some cash to pay for the remainder of the Sunderbans trip. Managed to get some at the third cashpoint we tried.

We noticed that on Sudder Street there is a huge tethered goat that has a face just like the beastie in Aliens.

Walked back to the hotel and waited for Subayesh to return with our passports. He turned up around 12.30pm with the passports and permits and we paid him the remainder of the money for the trip. He said that we should be ready to leave early the next morning.

Sarb went off to the internet cafe whilst Jo took Disco off to buy some train tickets for our trip up to Darjeeling.

The train station was very busy and hot. Wonder why Sarb decided to stay behind! Jo and Disco fended off the locals and successfully bought the train tickets to Darjeeling.

We all met up back at the Fairlawn hotel at about 5ish. Had a few drinks and decided that we couldn't face the hotel Galaxy when returned to Kolkata so booked rooms at the Fairlawn for the 16th and 17th of November.

At about 6ish Sarb went off to the Hotel Lindsay and sat drinking a beer, admiring the view over Kolkata as Jo and Disco went shopping in the bazaar's below.

We all had an excellent meal with loads of beer and some surprisingly drinkable wine.

Got back to the Galaxy where we packed our bags up ready for our Sunderbans trip t'row morning.