01/09/2010Whisky cheese sweats . . .Sweating out too much food and drink, 8am morning walk with Vikram, we drove up one of the mountains and power walked, followed by chai and biscuits in a friends hotel, overlooking the lake (mainly covered by fog). On the walk we went to the site where his dog was buried and put some flowers down.Brekkie at Vikrams restaurant, where they won't let me pay for anything, I think as they have daughters a couple years younger than m...

31/08/2010Boils, boils and more boils . . .Morning walk around the lake at 7am with the restaurant owners and their friends, good start to the day, followed by a stop off for lemon tea.I decided to walk to view the caves today after a cuppa with City Heart owner and I cooked us some warm apple, banana, dates and honey, every now and then I get the urge to cook.So I trekked up the hill seeing a monastery on the way, at the top it was foggy so I couldn't see a thin...

30/08/2010Heart is where the city is . . .?!Ended up checking into City Heart a place with a rooftop cafe and sat having tea with the owner. I wandered around the town all day, saw it all, it's not as big as I hoped the lake to be. But it is lovely here, very homely, no westerners, it's an Indian holiday place.I sat learning Hindi numbers with the kids in the square while drinking chai, they all thought it was so funny, poor little white girl learning to count! P...

29/08/2010Chug chug chug . . .Overnight train to Rishikesh, I braved the sleeper train, which was fab, 3tiers I was on the top and a group of young guys who are engineers were in the beds around, I just popped on my ipod and slept, at 6ish the guy in the bed opposite me gave me a note saying morning, so we exchanged notes in my half akip state and I ended up getting the bus with him and his mate to Rishikesh, they were my donkeys for best part of the day, we sat ...

28/08/2010Honey, honey, honey . . .7am we all got given our certificates and spiritual names, given a pot of honey (yummy to dip my bananas in, I have such a sweet tooth since India I add sugar and honey to everything, it's terrible but tastes so good) and got dotted, I always forget when I get dotted and smear it all over me head,Deepti - full of light- IreneShoba-brilliant, beautiful and attractive-JeanieJyoti- light-AmieAnisha -unobstructed/continous-ClaraBhav...