{"id":888,"date":"2010-05-07T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T09:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/go\/?p=888"},"modified":"2010-08-13T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T10:55:48","slug":"bhutan-diaries-day-0-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/bhutan-diaries-day-0-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan Diaries- Day 0: Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Day 0 21:45 ,Jharkhand air-space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just finished watching \u2018Wake Up Sid\u2019. Aru was right, maybe I should dedicate time for movies in order to better understand them and feel the kick. I\u2019m in a window seat &amp; I can see nothing but the bright fool moon &amp; some dew on the wings. Some aunties (pun intended) served great food on the \u2018new Air India\u2019, however, a minified (got this word jQuery) version of the airline&#8217;s glorious past. There was no welcome drink, toffee or even cotton wool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Take-off was delayed by almost an hour and half &amp; we waited the first 45 minutes without any intimation; the next 45 minutes we were locked up in the aircraft. Unlike my horrible SpiceJet experience recently, the cabin was oxygenated. OR guys have a lot to do in aviation \u2013at least operations in India are far from efficient.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some excited 1st-timers bring to my notice that ambient outside is -49c; that was constantly being updated on the head-rest mounted LCDs of the A319. All that\u2019s left for today is to get into a ambassador cab, drive to the hotel &amp; hopefully pay by the meter. Kolkata here I come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PS: Offline mode in the E71 really helps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Our Bhutan trip from Kolkata &amp; back was (well-)managed by <a title=\"Bhutan Mystic Bliss Tours &amp; Travels Pvt. Ltd.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bhutanmysticbliss.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mystic Bliss Tours &amp; Travel<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 0 21:45 ,Jharkhand air-space Just finished watching \u2018Wake Up Sid\u2019. Aru was right, maybe I should dedicate time for movies in order to better understand them and feel the kick. I\u2019m in a window seat &amp; I can see nothing but the bright fool moon &amp; some dew on the wings. Some aunties (pun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/bhutan-diaries-day-0-kolkata\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bhutan Diaries- Day 0: Kolkata<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[493,430,491,432,105,484,485,452,492,486,490,489,1035,483],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-air-india","tag-bhutan","tag-booking","tag-druk-air","tag-hotel","tag-jharkhand","tag-jquery","tag-mystic-bliss","tag-packages","tag-spicejet","tag-tip","tag-tour","tag-travel","tag-wake-up-sid"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}