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TGIF # 5: Woodrow’s at 6th Street, Austin

Kalyan Banerjee — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:42:49 +0000

Who plays darts in a pub? And that too when its Super Bowl Sunday? Lesser mortals like me and 4 others do. Well, what else can you do when all that you understand about Super Bowl is ‘touchdown‘, and that too only from the Hollywood movies you have seen. Woodrow’s at 6th Street, Austin has a nice place to play darts – two boards in all. Interestingly, everybody was busy watching Super Bowl on tv so we ‘took over’ the dart playfield for more than an hour.

The following shot is one of my attempts to capture the ‘Flying Dart‘. This on-the-move photography was extremely difficult since I had a limited capability camera. It took me 7 unsucessful attempts to shoot this. And boy, I was jumping when I could do this. The model in the shot is Tarun Bansal and the onlookers included Harish, Vibhav and Amit. Keep Austin Weird!

TGIF # 4: Victoria Memorial Kolkata

Kalyan Banerjee — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:46:09 +0000

Victoria Memorial is one of the most famous landmarks of Kolkata. Erected as a memorial for Queen Victoria, the monument is now a popular hang out for local and tourists alike. And like almost everything in Kolkata, it is an excellent value for money. Stroll in the premises, sit and talk, ride on a tanga outside and grap a few Phuchkas (Golgappa/ Panipuri). Here’s a shot taken during my visit to the place more than a year back.

TEM (Travel Event of the Month) February – The Great Indian Train Journey

Kalyan Banerjee — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:47:18 +0000

Train journeys in India give you terrific insights – into the look and feel of the places your train travels by and the people in those places. After a train journey, especially a longer one, you get a feel of the way people look, speak, behave and live in several parts of the country.

As an ode to this experience, I’m hosting ‘The Great Indian Train Journey‘ event at my blog this February. So, write your train experiences in India at your blog and let me know. Here’re some post ideas – your travel to home during summer holidays at boarding school/college, your first local train experience, 5 things you love/hate about Indian Railways, why you love travelling in sleeper class more than AC-2/3, or vice versa, vendors at railway stations, Indian Railways as a cultural change agent etc. For some more ideas, you can read my posts on Indian Railways. On 20th February, I’ll post a round up of this event with a link to your post.

Rules of the event:

Event period 26th Jan to 15th Feb 2009
Write about your experience with Indian Railways in your blog, post it during the event period with the event logo and a link back to this page.
If you’ve already written about the same, please re-post it during the event period.
Email your entry to aamikalyan@gmail.com, with “TEM Feb – The Great Indian Train Journey” in the subject line with following details: Your Name, Blog Name, Blog URL, post title, post URL, photo (photo is optional)
Last date for the entry is February 15th, 2009.
You can send multiple entries.
If you don’t have a blog but wish to participate in this event, send your entry with your name, picture (optional) and post title to aamikalyan@gmail.com on or before the last date. I will post your entry as a ‘guest post‘ with your picture (if you send it, that is) in my blog and include it in the round-up.

Acknowledgements

Event idea – Sudeshna
Event Rules idea – Srilekha