Inside there is usually one large figure and some small ones on the walls, but the outside ones are much better. The only A/C carriage on the night train from Agra to Khajuraho has 8 foreigners out of maybe 80-something people in the carriage – an unreasonable high proportion, if you think about it. We arrive at 7am, fight our way through rikshas, find the... Our hotel is a bit off the main road, and is called a Jungle Resort, even though there are hardly any trees around it. We got a small bungalow all to ourselves, which basically is one large room plus bathroom plus a nice roofed patio. For a country with 1 billion people, 19k population of Khajuraho is tiny, the village literally consists of less than 10 roads and still is one of the main tourist attractions of the country because of its Hindu “Kamasutra” and Jain temples. Roses are growing around the bungalow, some weird bumblebees buzzing around, and to add to the idyll, the bathroom is actually properly clean and the sockets are not falling out of the walls. At about 12pm I can hardly bear the heat any more, we find a tiny spot of shade and sit down there by a temple wall, inspired by another tourist who we saw just a minute ago – we were actually wondering whether she was dead, unwell or just exhausted. I would rather take a bunch of sneaky pictures of this event without actually participating, but as it turns out later, the wedding was happening during the night, so we didn’t see a single bit of it. In the morning all the chairs were piled on... After a shower and a slow early breakfast we set out to explore the western group of temples, which are hindu and are called the “Kamasutra” ones. The outer walls of the temples are covered with figures of elephants (don’t ask anything) and shapy ladies, sometimes accompanied by guys and in interesting postures.
I parked the RV in the outback lot Universal has for Rvs and walked, and walked, and walked, and sometimes used moving sidewalks where available and finally got to the ticket booth. Disney may call their park the “Magic Kingdom”, but the “Islands” were no less magical for me. I walked through the “City Walk” and reveled in the music, the energy and the color. The stores even looked like what I imagine medieval stores would have looked like—small, narrow and cramped. It looks exactly like I wanted it to look—just like in the movies. ” I walked through Seuss Landing/The Cat in the Hat and The Lost Continent before actually get to the “Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I stood in line to buy a “butterbeer”--a non-alcoholic drink that is Harry Potter's favorite. Finally, ticket in hand, I and several thousand other tourists and Harry Potter fans entered the “Islands of Adventure” theme park. The “Wizarding World of Harry Potter” opened last year at Universal Studios, so I have been planning to see it the first time I got back to Florida. Even though it was a Friday in February, I got to the ticket line and stood and stood and stood. The “Islands” side of Universal actually has six areas or “islands. I had intended to mail it from the post office in the store so it would have a Hogsmeade mark on it, but the line was too long and the store was too crowded. The village of Hogsmeade is built like a medieval town with buildings jammed together, with steep, steep roofs, covered with (artificial) snow.
According to Emma, this happens more often so when we couldn’t find them, we just went on. Once we were at the bar I went to get a drink with Emma, which we drunk outside, where lots of people were standing, because it was too crowded inside. About the volunteer project: because of Montserrat, I get to work my last two weeks at the orphanage that Kevin also worked at. Of this place, she was also sure that they would definitely have work for me. :). About La Virgen: I didn’t go. Because... Except for Poppy, by the way, she was running around like a kid, showing us the coral she had found and then running back into the water for more, haha. The sand is almost white and the water is as clear as can be. We couldn’t go far into the sea, because the was a lot of coral, creating a sort of bay at the beginning of the sea. At the hostel, we met some British folk (of which two formed a couple) and joined them that night for a night ‘on the town’. ) to fuck off and “what ever you’re trying, you’re wasting your time”, I lost Emma again. On our way back to the hostel, we walked by some touristy stands where Poppy bought a bracelet made out of can lids (yeah). ) place owned by an English man who was born in Africa and on his travels though Latin America, decided to live in Puerto Viejo and start a fusion restaurant (with Thai food. So, I joined Poppy and Emma on their trip to Puerto Viejo, Limón.
The tour guide said that visitors who have lived in NYC don’t find them particularly small, compared to other NYC apartments. We visited the Levine family’s apartment, where Mr. Levine worked the sewing machine six days a week, year-round. Making clothing requires ironing, and ironing required that the stove be kept going all day, six days a week, regardless of the weather. An interesting point the tour guide made is that sweatshop labor reform morphed into the NYC area’s women’s suffrage movement, and was headed by many of the same people. The other tour focused on 1890s-1900s sweatshops, a term that originally referred to apartments where people, mostly men, sewed in the family’s parlor. Once the women who were buying those garments realized the horrible conditions under which they are made, things started to change. The museum is an actual five-story apartment building at 97 Orchard Street, built in 1863 when the area was German. The Tenement Museum tour guide was excellent for the most part, but she may have oversimplified the owners’ actions by implying they purposely locked the doors to prevent the workers from escaping the fire. As machinery improved, factories as we know them started being built, hiring mostly Jewish immigrant women and girls who worked in unsafe, uncomfortable conditions, and the term sweatshop began to refer to those places. The tours centered around various families who lived in the building over the years.
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