Head for heights.......
Nov 21 - 27
I dont want to write too much about the week. Suffice to say:
Cloud broke (and spewed forth rainus muchus)
TV broke
Modem broke
Microwave broke
Power to house broke
Toilet broke
Taxi broke (whilst parked outside house)
Sleep broke (had about 3 hours a day average)
=
Patience broke (im moving out to a hotel for a few nights from Sunday!)
I think the guest house is cursed.
Had an interesting midnight conversation with three strapping undercover policemen who pulled up next to the replacement cab (for the one that broke!) in a rickshaw 'how did they all fit in that'? before giving me the third degree in safety as apparently we were parked waiting in an area notorious for muggings and riots!!! Instructed the driver to leave the local getto after we had first picked up Praveen (night-shift tech colleague who is a cool guy & we call 'black adder')) - he lives there!
Saturday went to Ponmudi. Ponmudi is a hill station at an altitude of 1000m above sea level on the Western Ghats mountain range. Surrounded by tea plantations its name (apparently) means Golden Crown in Malayalam - i'm not sure why i expected it to have a yellow peak.....because it didn't.
It was however very remote, and the journey took us through dusty villages past colourful Keralans and more palm trees than i probably thought existed and up the single lane mountain track higher and higher (saw an Elephant!!!) the 22 hairpins offering picturesque (thats one word for it!) drop-offs either side of the vehicle as we dodged buses coming in the other direction.
On arrival we checked in to our room (6 quid for the night.....and it was probably worth about that) before going for a walk. The views were spectacular (photos do not do them justice). Every direction, as far as the eye could see, was green fauna - palms/tea plantations/forests - no sign that a billion people live on this sub-continent. At the top of Ponmudi had a surreal moment as a group of Nuns suddenly appeared from behind a rock, obviously looking for something (god?) - they found me & Jam!
Returned to room where the 'weeeee's of mosquitoes and the general scuttles of cockroaches and worse interupted zzz's. Saw the dawn, took some more snaps and left.
This weeks featured soundtrack artists:
Blackbud
Nizlopi
Pearl Jam
I dont want to write too much about the week. Suffice to say:
Cloud broke (and spewed forth rainus muchus)
TV broke
Modem broke
Microwave broke
Power to house broke
Toilet broke
Taxi broke (whilst parked outside house)
Sleep broke (had about 3 hours a day average)
=
Patience broke (im moving out to a hotel for a few nights from Sunday!)
I think the guest house is cursed.
Had an interesting midnight conversation with three strapping undercover policemen who pulled up next to the replacement cab (for the one that broke!) in a rickshaw 'how did they all fit in that'? before giving me the third degree in safety as apparently we were parked waiting in an area notorious for muggings and riots!!! Instructed the driver to leave the local getto after we had first picked up Praveen (night-shift tech colleague who is a cool guy & we call 'black adder')) - he lives there!
Saturday went to Ponmudi. Ponmudi is a hill station at an altitude of 1000m above sea level on the Western Ghats mountain range. Surrounded by tea plantations its name (apparently) means Golden Crown in Malayalam - i'm not sure why i expected it to have a yellow peak.....because it didn't.
It was however very remote, and the journey took us through dusty villages past colourful Keralans and more palm trees than i probably thought existed and up the single lane mountain track higher and higher (saw an Elephant!!!) the 22 hairpins offering picturesque (thats one word for it!) drop-offs either side of the vehicle as we dodged buses coming in the other direction.
On arrival we checked in to our room (6 quid for the night.....and it was probably worth about that) before going for a walk. The views were spectacular (photos do not do them justice). Every direction, as far as the eye could see, was green fauna - palms/tea plantations/forests - no sign that a billion people live on this sub-continent. At the top of Ponmudi had a surreal moment as a group of Nuns suddenly appeared from behind a rock, obviously looking for something (god?) - they found me & Jam!
Returned to room where the 'weeeee's of mosquitoes and the general scuttles of cockroaches and worse interupted zzz's. Saw the dawn, took some more snaps and left.
This weeks featured soundtrack artists:
Blackbud
Nizlopi
Pearl Jam
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