So I have arrived back in Kolkata (Calcutta) but the last time I was here it must have been winter. Right now it is almost 40 degrees in the shade and 98 percent humidity. I got off the plane and thought I was standing too close to the jet engines, but it only got hotter as I moved further away!
The flight was ok with Air India, although I had to wait in Delhi for about three hours, and strangely enough, I was not allowed to carry any Indian money with me, so it became complicated trying to buy a Tuna sub, but I managed it in the end, much to the contentment of a grumbling tummy!
The band met me at the airport and we headed off to the apartment the record company, Saregama (HMV) are renting for my stay. As always the journey was interesting with cars honking each other and honking for the sake of it, and the kamikaze pedestrians I remember so well.
So here I am at 6 am Indian time and its around 2 am back in London, my brain is somewhere in between, but the bottle of whiskey I kaned with the band is easing in the jet lag nicely! I am at war with my old friends the mosquitos! It’s been a year and a half since we last did battle so I am now going out to buy some essentials, shorts, coffie and all the mossy pariphinalia I can find! Simon, hot, no…. fucking hot!
