sent from: London, UK. destination: Jersey City, NJ, USA

What I Learned On My Christmas Holidays:

• What we call warm, Bombay calls a cold winter
• Straight roads can have many curves
• Cabbies love to fleece foreigners
• You can never ask too many questions about the place that you’re staying at in the middle of rural Kerela before you get there
• Average cost of cabs ~60 Rs (about 80p)
• Sending postcards to ‘foreign’ will cost you either 12 Rs, 15 Rs, or some random number depending on the mood of the person you are asking
• Vodaphone are shit in every language
• The sight of your mother smoking hookah is one that sticks with you
• Someone fleecing me for 50 Rs (about 60p) really bothers me, but I’m ok paying the equivalent of £50 for a luxury meal in a Bombay restaurant
• The world is divided into two categories; veg, and non-veg
• Don’t try to catch a cab to Agripada from Zaveri Bazaar at rush hour
• Chalta Hai