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Travel Day 877 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was finally a resting day for me and for the first time since I had arrived in India, I could sleep-in and have an extended breakfast with my hostel mates… My teacher had left town already to prepare to tomorrows Tablaphilia concert and so I found myself for […]
Travel Day 876 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was unfortunately the last day in India for my Tabla brother I had been studying with, but at least we were up to something fun… First off we paid our Tabla teacher a short visit for a last little lesson and a fare-well for my friend. But afterwards […]
Travel Day 875 – Kolkata, INDIA We actually made it out of bed early enough to keep the resolution from yesterday and so we joined the morning Christmas mess at 8.30am… The funny thing was that this was Christmas day in a Hindu country and only very few shops actually seemed to acknowledge that Christmas […]
Travel Day 873 – Kolkata, INDIA It was day three of the Tablaphilia rehearsal, but the friendly owner of the Tabla store yesterday had invited me to come back in the morning because I would have the chance to learn how to build a Tabla from scratch… Since I had learned a trade myself and […]
Travel Day 873 – Kolkata, INDIA It was the second day of the Tablaphilia rehearsal and today we finally managed to see the bigger picture of the entire composition… But first the rehearsal started out almost equally as chaotic as it did yesterday. We had to change the overall seating arrangement, alternate some positions of […]
Travel Day 872 – Kolkata, INDIA It was a new day of a new routine and we started it quite early while meeting our teacher, helping to pack up all his Tablas and bringing them via taxi down to the rehearsal location by Kalighat… Once we arrived and unloaded all the Tablas, all the other […]
Travel Day 871 – Kolkata, INDIA It was hard to believe that today was already our last day of the usual Tabla routine, but it also gave room for something else to come instead… Actually, as we were told in our class, from now on we would be able to join the rehearsal classes for […]
Travel Day 870 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was another day of the usual Tabla routine, but since we got off class early, we went for a little exploration walk on the way home… This time we finally decided to explore the campus of Rabindra-Bharati-University which was close by and our main point of reference every […]
Travel Day 869 – Kolkata, INDIA Besides the surprise Tabla class every day and the usual routine, one other item started to break up the day and make the stay in Kolkata quite special, the afternoon walks… While it was absolutely necessary to get up, stretch and walk far a while after sitting crossed legged […]
Travel Day 866 to 868 – Kolkata, INDIA It was funny, but all of a sudden I was not only having a daily routine of studying Tabla, but also an actual Travel Life… What was funny about this circumstance was the fact that the longer I travelled, the more I actually enjoyed staying in certain […]
Travel Day 865 – Kolkata, INDIA When I woke up in the morning, I still felt a bit dizzy, but after sleeping all afternoon and evening, I felt about 80% recovered… It was strange because I had been quite careful over the first days and I couldn’t believe that I got sick so quickly, but […]
Travel Day 864 – Kolkata, INDIA After two great days, unfortunately this one was not quite as great since I woke up with a stomach ache and the realization that this would be nothing but a Miserable Sick Day… After a banana and lots of tea for breakfast, I dragged myself to my Tabla class. […]
Travel Day 863 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was finally my first Tabla class with my teacher in India and while I didn’t quite know what to expect, I was soon to find out what it was all about… Actually it wasn’t about much, at least it wasn’t today. I arrived at 9am at the class […]