Hotel Zahgeer Continental Srinagar

... on the phone to his girlfriend at one point and mentioned he was sitting with his friend from London. She wanted to hear my accent so I said a few words to her but she was shy and didn't respond.
When I saw Ashraf I queried where my laundry was... apparantly he had been to the place to chase them but they hadn't done it as it was holidays and it will now be ready on Monday...WTF!
I washed what few clothes I had and hung them to dry on the Kerosene heater then headed to bed.

... pump" I was quite devastated to find out that there is no gas there, and they don't expect any tomorrow as well. There was some sort of shock there (i somehow just didn't expect the possibility of being stuck without fuel), and like a beheaded chicken I jumped on the scooter, going back home. I had some unclear hope that I'll get some petrol in one of the villages on the way to Leh, I don't know why. That hope has disappeared when I reached Khardung. No one had any petrol to sell. The ...

... m meeting Victor, it's so funny to meet the same folks you saw once. The meeting place this time was a decent local eatery - "Tibetan Food" they called it, located at the main "plaza", on the second floor of some shop. We exchanged the experiences and the pictures. He has got some really interesting ones from Dha - a village to the west of Leh. We decide to go there after we return from Nubra. He proposes me to visit the local gompa in the morning to watch the morning pray.

... on ainult kokakoolat ja Mountain Dew'd. Võtan siis viimast, et lunastada endale varjuline istumiskoht kaasapandud lõunasöögi võrra koti kergemaks söömiseks. Ümberringi lillelõhn ja vaade küla valgekslubjatud majadele. Super. Natukese aja tshillimise järel saabuvad ameerika noored ja hakkavad vahetama kogemusi küpsiste teemal. Lahkun edasi Temisgami suunas.
Pisut varjulist asfaltteed, siis põikan külavaheteele ja lõikan ära mitu kurvi. Proovin ühe veejoa all ...

... ei ole minu abikaasa ega ka poiss-sõbraga. Ladaki keele oskus ei ole olukorra selgitamiseks paraku piisav. Norrakas on muidu ok, ei räägi palju. Teeme nalja prantsuse filmiperekonna üle. Viieliikmeline pere, kõik filmivad ja pildistavad meeleheitlikult. A family obsessed with recording.
Rahvast koguneb rohkem, vanemad naised pidulikes tikanditega riietes ja kõrgete mütsidega, mehed paksudes ürpides. Riietus on selgelt generatsioonide kaupa erinev. Vanematel ...

... I tell ******** number two that I no longer require his services and begin to walk back down the fire escape. Time for me to do this on my own. Come hell or high water, I'm done with India, and if it takes me walking to the airport, not a problem, I'm out!
Check that........let me rewind for a minute. Before I headed down the fire escape, I asked Jabba the Slut if i could bum a cigarette and she kindly obliged. Not everyone in India is that bad. What can i say, she ...

... floating shop (below). Even if you did not want to buy anything you would enjoy a cup of tea and a lengthy conversation confirming that each item in the boat was something you did not need or want but with a smile George would reply maybe tomorrow and without ...

... overpowering any other noise in the town. We then set off towards Srinagar as one big group and it was a good feeling. It was a great day with some more amazing riding with one of the deepest rivers we had to cross. It was only about a metre but very rocky underneath with some big obstacles and none of us wanted to get went as it would of been freezing to carry on riding after (especially over the pass). We all stopped and looked for the shallowest point to ...

Along with my 4 trek-mates, I was set to leave Leh at 7 a.m. on Tues. By happy coincidence, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was arriving in Leh at the same time. So we joined the throngs of Ladakhis lining the few kilometres of road from the airport to the town to welcome him. It was a fantastic sight: all dressed in their best, the young in Western attire, the elders in traditional ...

... Dha, a tenth of the size we'd expected, with no shops or guesthouses in sight; in fact precious few buildings in sight at all. Somebody pointed to some steps leading up the mountain and said the guesthouse was that way. Mica volunteered to go and check it out; half an hour later she hadn't returned and I went with our driver to investigate. At the top of the steps a footpath began, leading us past fields of barley, under apricot and mulberry trees and past clumps of flowers of ...