And my goodness, I am excited. For the past five days I haven't been able to have anything made with milk or cheese, anything spicy or oily, mangoes, papayas or watermelon, any of the usual stuff like salad, any fizzy drinks or alcohol. My staple diet has been bananas and I have been a bit worried about the likelihood of an altercation with a rogue monkey.
We have decided to stay in McLeod Ganj until Wednesday with Ram the hotel manager/pharmacist, and then we are heading to Shimla. Via car. Score. We are planning to spend the next few days doing a bit of souvenir shopping, maybe doing a cookery course, and hopefully doing at least one day of the volunteering we found out about. Also hopefully learning a new card game because we only know one and it's getting a bit tiresome. Particularly with Joe singing "The Ace of Spades" and "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" over the top.
Shimla is another hill station so should be nice and cool still. It is the place where the Raj government retreated to in the summer so we are expecting lots of faded opulence and tea with milk. There is also a bird sanctuary full of exotic pheasants. Random. From Shimla we go on to Chandigargh. Chandigargh is a modern city built to be the capital of the Punjab when Lahore ended up in Pakistan. Apparently the architecture is crazy and it's full of trees and interesting things to see.
From Chandigargh I think we are going to fly to Mumbai for our flight to Colombo which is a week on Friday. I feel like we have been in India for about three years so it is quite novel to be thinking about going to another country. We are also working out routes and plans for the rest of the trip while we're here. Well, I say we are working this stuff out, but really I mean Joe is working this stuff out and I am typing nonsense.
Our new date for returning in the UK is the 19th August. So we have just under two weeks left in India, two weeks in Sri Lanka, half a week in Bangkok, half a week in Bali (stupid stupid STA) then five weeks in the states. Exciting!
Keep your fingers crossed that we don't have to seek any further medical attention!
We have decided to stay in McLeod Ganj until Wednesday with Ram the hotel manager/pharmacist, and then we are heading to Shimla. Via car. Score. We are planning to spend the next few days doing a bit of souvenir shopping, maybe doing a cookery course, and hopefully doing at least one day of the volunteering we found out about. Also hopefully learning a new card game because we only know one and it's getting a bit tiresome. Particularly with Joe singing "The Ace of Spades" and "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" over the top.
Shimla is another hill station so should be nice and cool still. It is the place where the Raj government retreated to in the summer so we are expecting lots of faded opulence and tea with milk. There is also a bird sanctuary full of exotic pheasants. Random. From Shimla we go on to Chandigargh. Chandigargh is a modern city built to be the capital of the Punjab when Lahore ended up in Pakistan. Apparently the architecture is crazy and it's full of trees and interesting things to see.
From Chandigargh I think we are going to fly to Mumbai for our flight to Colombo which is a week on Friday. I feel like we have been in India for about three years so it is quite novel to be thinking about going to another country. We are also working out routes and plans for the rest of the trip while we're here. Well, I say we are working this stuff out, but really I mean Joe is working this stuff out and I am typing nonsense.
Our new date for returning in the UK is the 19th August. So we have just under two weeks left in India, two weeks in Sri Lanka, half a week in Bangkok, half a week in Bali (stupid stupid STA) then five weeks in the states. Exciting!
Keep your fingers crossed that we don't have to seek any further medical attention!
It was lovely talking to you again today. Keep well and don't forget to breathe. I love you.
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