Kolkata - India

Kolkata is crazy, congested, filthy. Bicycle rickshaws, tuk tuks, iconic Ambassador taxis, old chugging busses constantly beeping their horns. People bathing, brushing their teeth, washing clothes in the streets. Fresh vegetable markets, vast flower markets, chaotic wiring. All set against the backdrop of fabulous colonial architecture including Victoria Memorial. 

Mother Teresa's convent where she lived, worked and died - photographs and accolades cover the walls in one room - though she sought none of them.

We went to India Post to send a parcel home and they informed us we must go outside and have the man on a bench wrap and hand stitch our parcel in cotton before it could be sent - cost - only $1. Love the old traditions in these days of the Internet and Fed Ex.