Mumbai, India
Monday, December 7, 2009
Finding my feet in
Mumbai, getting to know the sights and sounds of the city. I have walked the length and breadth of the Colaba and Fort districts. To make things more difficult for myself, I have been using a map, not from the Rough Guide, but from the classic Murray's
Handbook to India,
Burma & Ceylon, 1926 edition. If Annie Maitland had a guidebook, it could well have been this one, or Thomas Cook's
Information for Travellers and Residents. India, Burma and Ceylon (which I also have). The layout of the city has not changed, but many of the landmarks have (a statue of Queen Victoria replaced by one of Ghandi, for example), and the street names have also been changed from the English names given by the British. In those days, Thomas Cook stepped up and helped with all manner of travel arrangements. Today, they are still in the same building, where a young man called Mayur Joshi helped me reserve my train tickets for the next few weeks of my travels.
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