By bluerasberry on 2014-08-14
I went to the Palace of Versailles. I had studied the place a bit and wanted to see it for myself so that I could better understand it, so I went Thursday 14 August in the morning. There was a line for a security check. It took some time for me to get through this […]
Posted in Paris, tour | Tagged Devyani Khobragade, labor, museum, palace
By bluerasberry on 2013-08-17
Sou and I visited the Grand Palace in Bangkok on 14 August 2013. We were returning back from Wikimania and were able to arrange a flight which passed through Bangkok and let us stay overnight, so we did. The night we arrived Sou wanted to visit the gay sleazy district. When we were in Hong […]
Posted in Bangkok, gay stuff, service industry, Thailand | Tagged palace, sex
By bluerasberry on 2007-06-03
The drive from Varanasi to Kathmandu by bus was pleasurable. I caught a night bus to Gorakpur at the bus station in Cant in Varanasi. I arrived in Gorakpur before sunlight, and had no trouble finding a connecting bus to Sunali. I arrived in Sunali in the morning, got stamped out of India and into […]
Posted in Nepal | Tagged buffalo, food, Kathmandu, palace
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-02
As I was saying, we left Varanasi on Friday. We bribed someone at the train station Rs 40 to get tickets for us from beyond the counter so that we would not have to wait in line. Nandan gave the guy Rs 200 and said that he would be back. Even though he looked like […]
Posted in animal, India, museum, religion | Tagged ghost, giraffe, Islam, Lucknow, palace, peacock, sickness, tiger, zoo