I had booked the return flight from
Sikkim to Calcutta with 2 days leeway before our flight home. Sure
enough I got a text message the day before our flight that the bad
weather (fog) meant the flight could not fly into Pakyong and the
flight was moved to another airport 200km away. That was actually
good news since that airport was closer to Darjeeling than Pakyong.
I saved 500 rupees. All went well and we were back in Kolkata by 1
pm. The heat is still a killer. I engaged a taxi driver to take us
to a temple for 6 pm, wait 40 min and bring us home. I had the guide
book with a picture and he called a pow-wow with his friends at the
taxi stand to sort the directions and set the price. Off we went and
we were in the most decrepit taxi ever. It had 4 doors only3 of
which opened. The clutch was gone so we shuddered when starting. He
stopped to add water to the rad twice. We were going along in the
fast lane of a dual highway when we went past a radar gun. It felt
like 120 because of the rattling but we were only doing 47kph. We
were glad to get home in one piece.
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