Happy Holi everyone!
Unfortunately I have the shits..
Not the runs, the shits. I'd probably prefer the runs, as I'm sure it would involve far less effort than what I'm currently experiencing - all I would have to do would be sit down.. Its really not so bad, I'm just starving it.
I've actually had a really good few days. I just read over my last post and I sounded like I was a bit over it all. I was. Looking back on it I didn't enjoy Agra and Jaipur very much at all. In fact straight after I wrote my last post from Jaipur I got taken for a ride (literally..). I went out in search of a phone booth to call Hana and asked a tut tut driver where the closest one was. He said it was a fair way up the street, and then out of the blue asked me to read him an email he received (of course he couldn't read or write English). I did and because we were now friends he said he'd drive me to the phone booth. All was going well until the ride back when we stopped at 'his house' and his sister offered me a puppet as a gift and said that they usually sell them for 250-300 Rs. Feeling guilty, I tried to refuse, but he insisted, so instead I offered money. I ended up giving him 100Rs for the puppet (which was probably worth about 30Rs and which I had no use for whatsoever). The lesson: Nobody is your friend in India...
But like I said, things improved after Jaipur and I've had a really good few days. From Jaipur we went to the tiny town of Roopangarh by regular bus. I've discovered that the difference between a deluxe and a regular bus is that you need a seat to get on a deluxe.. It wasn't so bad, as we all had seats for the full 3 hours. In Roopangarh we stayed in the town's fort. It was an amazing hotel, our room was probably 25mx20m with a private rooftop terrace and views out over the town. We went into the town in the evening and it was as if we were celebrities.. Everyone in town came out to have a look, and every child followed us wherever we went asking us to take a photo of them. It was insane.
We were only at Roopangarh for one night and made our way to Pushkar the next day. Felt ill all morning - probably due to a dodgy egg at breakfast - and had the shits the rest of the day. In the afternoon our camel safari began so I took an immodium to clog it all up. The camel safari was ok - sitting on a camel for three hours is not the most comfortable thing in the world and I got burnt like a bitch, but camping in the desert was really cool. Was up at dawn the next day to get back to Pushkar. That makes it 4 sunrises I've seen in 2 weeks. Somebody better be making me some sort of medal right now..
Pushkar's a really nice town situated around a lake (which looks man-made) which supposedly sprung from a lotus flower belonging to Shiva, or some such rubbish. Anyway, the lake makes Pushkar a holy town, almost on a par with Varanasi. This made it one of THE places to be for Holi. Spent the day after the camels organising our onward trip and the day after everythign was shut for Holi. Holi is one of the biggest Hindu holidays of the year, but instead of giving presents they just splash everybody who ventures into the streets with water and colour (coloured powder). I only went out for about 45 minutes but I was every shade of pink and blue from head to toe. The American girls came out with us and they were prime targets. One of them had her face completely painted pink, including the whites of her eyes and her teeth! No Easter here, Tommy, but I wouldn't have been up for chocolate on Sunday anyway, I would have just shat it straight out..
The evening of Holi, the tour group left for Delhi, and Suze and I stayed behind. We spent that night in a little shit-hole for $5 each a night and vowed never again. Both of us had the shits and the bathroom was awful. The tap in the sink didn't work so we had to use a smaller tap that just opened onto the floor instead, and as soon as the floor got wet the whole room smelled of piss! That night, for Holi, the most loud, horrible, toneless excuse for music was blasted from the temple until 5 in the morning. Barely slept a wink..
After spending a day just bumming around the markets and cafes, Suze and I caught our bus to Udaipur. We originally booked the 11am bus, but because of Holi the bus was officially delayed until 4. Unofficially, the bus left at 5.30.. I didn't find the 6 hour journey that painful. Although it seems they don't believe in suspension or leg room, the trip was far more painful for Suze, who was dying for the toilet after an hour (she'd proudly told me before the bus left that 'she wouldn't be dehydrated because she'd drunk 4 litres of water') and kept being told that there was 'only 10 more minutes' until we stopped. Eventually we made the bus stop for her to go on the side of the road, giving every passing motorist a look at her arse!
We got to Udaipur at 11.30 and found our way to the hotel Candice (our tour leader) recommended. It was all shut up, but the Colonel answered a knock at the door and gave us a very nice room for 500Rs ($8 each). Spent today wandering around Udaipur, and its a lovely town. Its famous for its lake palace (a palace built in the middle of the lake), but the lake is currently dry. Apparently they filmed (at least some) of Octopussy here, so every single cafe and restaurant in Udaipur shows Octopussy every night of the week!
India's a funny place. Some days you absolutely hate it and others you love it. Yesterday I was over it all and wanted to get going to England. Today, I'm having a great time and could easily stay longer.
Good to see things are going well at home.. Who let a girl host a barbeque in the first place?! Of course she was going to fuck it up..
I've been in touch with Hana, and for those who don't know, she's already got a job!
This post has been long enough already, so congratulations if you got this far and check back soon!
Unfortunately I have the shits..
Not the runs, the shits. I'd probably prefer the runs, as I'm sure it would involve far less effort than what I'm currently experiencing - all I would have to do would be sit down.. Its really not so bad, I'm just starving it.
I've actually had a really good few days. I just read over my last post and I sounded like I was a bit over it all. I was. Looking back on it I didn't enjoy Agra and Jaipur very much at all. In fact straight after I wrote my last post from Jaipur I got taken for a ride (literally..). I went out in search of a phone booth to call Hana and asked a tut tut driver where the closest one was. He said it was a fair way up the street, and then out of the blue asked me to read him an email he received (of course he couldn't read or write English). I did and because we were now friends he said he'd drive me to the phone booth. All was going well until the ride back when we stopped at 'his house' and his sister offered me a puppet as a gift and said that they usually sell them for 250-300 Rs. Feeling guilty, I tried to refuse, but he insisted, so instead I offered money. I ended up giving him 100Rs for the puppet (which was probably worth about 30Rs and which I had no use for whatsoever). The lesson: Nobody is your friend in India...
But like I said, things improved after Jaipur and I've had a really good few days. From Jaipur we went to the tiny town of Roopangarh by regular bus. I've discovered that the difference between a deluxe and a regular bus is that you need a seat to get on a deluxe.. It wasn't so bad, as we all had seats for the full 3 hours. In Roopangarh we stayed in the town's fort. It was an amazing hotel, our room was probably 25mx20m with a private rooftop terrace and views out over the town. We went into the town in the evening and it was as if we were celebrities.. Everyone in town came out to have a look, and every child followed us wherever we went asking us to take a photo of them. It was insane.
We were only at Roopangarh for one night and made our way to Pushkar the next day. Felt ill all morning - probably due to a dodgy egg at breakfast - and had the shits the rest of the day. In the afternoon our camel safari began so I took an immodium to clog it all up. The camel safari was ok - sitting on a camel for three hours is not the most comfortable thing in the world and I got burnt like a bitch, but camping in the desert was really cool. Was up at dawn the next day to get back to Pushkar. That makes it 4 sunrises I've seen in 2 weeks. Somebody better be making me some sort of medal right now..
Pushkar's a really nice town situated around a lake (which looks man-made) which supposedly sprung from a lotus flower belonging to Shiva, or some such rubbish. Anyway, the lake makes Pushkar a holy town, almost on a par with Varanasi. This made it one of THE places to be for Holi. Spent the day after the camels organising our onward trip and the day after everythign was shut for Holi. Holi is one of the biggest Hindu holidays of the year, but instead of giving presents they just splash everybody who ventures into the streets with water and colour (coloured powder). I only went out for about 45 minutes but I was every shade of pink and blue from head to toe. The American girls came out with us and they were prime targets. One of them had her face completely painted pink, including the whites of her eyes and her teeth! No Easter here, Tommy, but I wouldn't have been up for chocolate on Sunday anyway, I would have just shat it straight out..
The evening of Holi, the tour group left for Delhi, and Suze and I stayed behind. We spent that night in a little shit-hole for $5 each a night and vowed never again. Both of us had the shits and the bathroom was awful. The tap in the sink didn't work so we had to use a smaller tap that just opened onto the floor instead, and as soon as the floor got wet the whole room smelled of piss! That night, for Holi, the most loud, horrible, toneless excuse for music was blasted from the temple until 5 in the morning. Barely slept a wink..
After spending a day just bumming around the markets and cafes, Suze and I caught our bus to Udaipur. We originally booked the 11am bus, but because of Holi the bus was officially delayed until 4. Unofficially, the bus left at 5.30.. I didn't find the 6 hour journey that painful. Although it seems they don't believe in suspension or leg room, the trip was far more painful for Suze, who was dying for the toilet after an hour (she'd proudly told me before the bus left that 'she wouldn't be dehydrated because she'd drunk 4 litres of water') and kept being told that there was 'only 10 more minutes' until we stopped. Eventually we made the bus stop for her to go on the side of the road, giving every passing motorist a look at her arse!
We got to Udaipur at 11.30 and found our way to the hotel Candice (our tour leader) recommended. It was all shut up, but the Colonel answered a knock at the door and gave us a very nice room for 500Rs ($8 each). Spent today wandering around Udaipur, and its a lovely town. Its famous for its lake palace (a palace built in the middle of the lake), but the lake is currently dry. Apparently they filmed (at least some) of Octopussy here, so every single cafe and restaurant in Udaipur shows Octopussy every night of the week!
India's a funny place. Some days you absolutely hate it and others you love it. Yesterday I was over it all and wanted to get going to England. Today, I'm having a great time and could easily stay longer.
Good to see things are going well at home.. Who let a girl host a barbeque in the first place?! Of course she was going to fuck it up..
I've been in touch with Hana, and for those who don't know, she's already got a job!
This post has been long enough already, so congratulations if you got this far and check back soon!
posted by YT at 8:30 pm
4 Comments:
Man that post was long... Don't make me read that much again. All is well here, I've got a cold, and that's about the highlight of the week. Sorry about my troubled friend's comment.. I'll try to stop him from doing such things in the future. Anyway, have a good time... hope you're really enjoying yourself away from Annabel, I mean, home. Cya
Many a wolfemen will be contemplated, however its imporant to understand the difficulties you may face travelling the wide world of wolfey (earth). Some famous star lookerers have said "there may well be a dimension out there known as 4D wolfey." but my friend for now you willl have to travel around a piece of rock that has supposedly been here for millions of years (earth).
Hence: New Testimant, John 6:24
"Jesus was born out of Mary's mouth" THIS IS THE ONLY SANE EXPLINATION FOR HER HAVING A CHILD IF SHE WAS A VIRGIN.
Hence: I went to Camberwell on a tram today and was engulfed by a pod of inspectors as i tried to enjoy a peaceful trip psyching myself up for a large session at a place otherwise known as the TAB. I believe that to become a tram inspector you must put yourself through many weather difficulties to climb the ranks of being standors, surveyors, drivors, travelor, watchor, talkors. They will never catch the wolfeman whilst he is in full fare wolfey mode.
Hence: (and this special chocolate cake advice for Andrew) Trust no one, except for the old man wearing a brown suit standing just by the bookmakers ring on a dry day at Flemington when the track is Good.
:Hence, much has been contemplated and toiled with throughout the proceeding of this "comment." If you failed to find this funny or have the inner wolfeman released inside of you, you have many a issues. p.s. if you failed to find it funny, read it like a stand up comedian would.
:Hence. p.p.s. I hope you are having an awesome time travelling Andrew and i only wrote this msg because i dont recieve the attention i require. I will press to keep u informed of the Wattle park and East Burwood pods.
Wolfeman...........
Many a wolfemen will be contemplated, however its imporant to understand the difficulties you may face travelling the wide world of wolfey (earth). Some famous star lookerers have said "there may well be a dimension out there known as 4D wolfey." but my friend for now you willl have to travel around a piece of rock that has supposedly been here for millions of years (earth).
Hence: New Testimant, John 6:24
"Jesus was born out of Mary's mouth" THIS IS THE ONLY SANE EXPLINATION FOR HER HAVING A CHILD IF SHE WAS A VIRGIN.
Hence: I went to Camberwell on a tram today and was engulfed by a pod of inspectors as i tried to enjoy a peaceful trip psyching myself up for a large session at a place otherwise known as the TAB. I believe that to become a tram inspector you must put yourself through many weather difficulties to climb the ranks of being standors, surveyors, drivors, travelor, watchor, talkors. They will never catch the wolfeman whilst he is in full fare wolfey mode.
Hence: (and this special chocolate cake advice for Andrew) Trust no one, except for the old man wearing a brown suit standing just by the bookmakers ring on a dry day at Flemington when the track is Good.
:Hence, much has been contemplated and toiled with throughout the proceeding of this "comment." If you failed to find this funny or have the inner wolfeman released inside of you, you have many a issues. p.s. if you failed to find it funny, read it like a stand up comedian would.
:Hence. p.p.s. I hope you are having an awesome time travelling Andrew and i only wrote this msg because i dont recieve the attention i require. I will press to keep u informed of the Wattle park and East Burwood pods.
Wolfeman...........
Thanks Wolfeman, your ponderings on the evolution of MET employees has given me many things to meditate on during my long hours in search of Nirvana...
Post a Comment
<< Home