Midway places

Remind me not to do them.

It was lovely to be in Kolkata and spending time with the family, but I could've done that at home in Adelaide. I needed to be in Hyderabad, or doing something! I got so restless. I ended up learning a lot about the monsoon that week and found out that it had arrived in Delhi 2 weeks early for the first time in 108 years, and other such trivia that people who don't know about the monsoon don't really care about!

But fascinating fact.... In India there are two arms of the monsoon. One comes in a east westerly direction and crosses from the Bay of Bengal through Bangladesh and through Kolkata and onto Delhi, and the other arm rises up from the southern most point of India and heads through southern India to central India and meets up with the other arm at Delhi. But with both arms they basically run out of rain by the time they hit Delhi.

I believed this when I arrived there last week and I felt like the humid max had been reached.

While in Bengal, a there was torrential monsoon rain and consequential flooding, and the making of 2.3 lakhs homeless. This is huge. We had brothers turn up at the flood who had had to swim for kilometre's to reach some form of transport to come into the city on, and they'd seen all their livestock drown and houses get washed away. It was pretty devastating. We were upset because we thought there was too much rain to go out in, and there they were losing everything they owned. One man was able to save his bible. Such a lesson to us.