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Sheena's comments : Nice narrative from the Sowden, which I cannot beat so here are my views on the last few days.
1)I wandered outside to the main ghat on the first day whilst Sowden was watching Man U get thrashed by Liverpool, but with hundreds of eyes on me I felt uncomfortable and retreated back inside. And in those 10 minutes I spent outside I was the recipient of 14 large and painful mosquito bites (even though I was wearing long trousers,!)
2)Not everyone was complimentary about myself and Simon being a couple. On the second day in India I heard the comment 'You are Indian, why you marry a English man, you should be married to Indian' . I was ready for a fight and was going to knock him out but there was only one of me and loads of them so I decided against it.
3)There were many rickshaw guys on the side of the street bugging us every two seconds about going for a rickshaw ride. I always said no to the really aggressive young guys, but if they happened to be old and looked like my grand-dad (who was very cute) then I relented. Yesterday a 20 minute walk took 20 minutes on a rickshaw because I went for a 50 year old man with bandy legs who couldn't pull Simon's weight. He spent most of the journey pulling the rickshaw inside of cycling, everybody was laughingat us and he was shouting obsenities. It could only happen to us!
4)The reasons for giving into the hippy clothes are the following - it's too hot to wear my thick trousers and cooler to wear cotton trs, you can't bare your legs in some places so my two pairs of shorts are no use (plus the mozzies are a killer), I sent back half my clothes as we had too much baggage and then half of my remaining tops got ruined in the wash… So I spent £10 buying a new wardrobe!
5)When Si says it stinks, it really does stink. Think of all the railway toilets and underground car parks that you have ever been to and that stunk. Multiply that by 50 and add the smell of pooh from 100 goats, 100 buffalo and some rabied dogs…you have your smell.
6)Watching the aarti here, done everyday at 7pm infront of a crowd of about 1000 people was breathtaking, momentarily ruined by a priest asking Simon for 100 rupees - I told him to get lost.
7)It was an inspirational place to visit, a once in lifetime experience, but I don'ti think I would feel the need to come back here, unless I decide to turn to religion….
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