Yes its hard to buy beer here, stupidly hard, tonight I got the driver to stop for beer. This time we thought we would do it at russell street in the city as its full of liqour stores, or as they are called here “wine shops” …I havent figures this out as they rarely sell wine people!
But needless to say US$36 dollars later I am the proud owner of 24 tiger beer cans… ahhh…. pity it was in a store that had no refridgeration and the beer was 40 C ! 2 hrs its been in the freezer and its still warm.
Anyway this last week we moved into the apartment, its still temporary as its smal, its about 850ft , just 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms a small galley kitchen and a living/dining room with a small balcony… and small it is. So tomorrow we are hoping to get to look at one of the garden apartments that are available, yes there are apartments that have their own private gardens, who would have thought that 12 storeys up you could have a lawn!
We are currently on the front of the building, and damn its noisy. 24/7 its horns blowing and cars and trucks. Way too much, add to this the fact the sun rises here at 4.30am and we are on the eastern corner its not nice at all!
But we get to see lots of things, I tell everyone at work we are now living in the cow fields of Kolkata, because literally this complex is in the old farmlands and there are cows and farms around us.
Across the road we have this veggie farm that they are working on at the moment:
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The rock pickers on their way to work
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hard at work removing the rocks
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the one in red doesn’t work hard and keeps walking away
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surprisingly they have a real motorized rotary hoe to plow the fields
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the farmers kids are easily amused by playing in a dead tree which is not seen normally…that is kids actually playing!
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From Saurabh Makkar:
BTW, have you had a chance to have beer that is at 40 degre celcius temprature…
It’s horrible but fun at the same time… Try it when you are feeling adventures..!!
From admin:
Oh that sounds worse than drinking a 40 C coke ….