Plaza Bar & Restaurant Hotel Jalandhar

... gate we moved towards Ropar, and reached Ropar awithin15 minuts. Gurudwara Bhatha Sahib is situated on Ropar-Chandigarh Road. By that time we were feeling hungery, but we decided not to take lunch till we reach Ludhiana. ( that was faaaaar MAN!). Well even we tried at our level best to find any mechanic in ropar, but there was no mechenic availble due to sunday. History : This Gurudwara commemorates the visit of tenth Guru Sri Gobind Singh ...

... so they could relocate the holes. The guy said he would not be able to do it right away and that we would have to come back later in the day. We came back to the house and I set about sorting out a few others things around the house. I went up to Nakodar with Soma at lunch time to grab a bite to eat and pick up a few supplies. When we came back Soma's sister had come to visit so I sat with her for most of the after noon. I didn't start ...

... Pind till after 10.30am, I went to the bank in Nakodar first and they told me the guy who deals with the ATM was off sick so they couldn't tell me whether I was going to get my refund today, I would have to go back tomorrow. I got the office in Jalandhar around midday, and before you ask, yes it was hot! I chilled there for a while then Arun and I went to the sign place to confirm the booking. The other place we went to last night came back with the same price as the ...

... in the waiting area itself! It was a pressure test and the eye test it self. When we got in to see the optician he was just a Larry, he kept yawning and carried on like he had better things to do than look at aunties eyes. He peed me off to be honest. He said she had very little vision in her right eye and the left was not that far behind, he sad she could leave it about a month for the operation but no longer than that. I was glad to ...

... confrontation with Laxmi the other day, she hasn't cleaned the side of the house I'm staying in, which is fine by my, I have hands too and they work! Obviously my Thai is not happy about my newfound independence because it's not the Indian way but I'm cool with it all, in fact I prefer it this way. I was waiting on the new tiles today, and when they hadn't arrived by the afternoon we went to Nakodar to pay the guy's a visit, apparently the roof of the ...

Day 185 Fri 12th May 2006 The attempt at a car purchase! I was up at 5.30am this morning because the fan in my room had stopped working. When I looked into it, the inverter had stopped working and the battery was dead, so the everything connected to inverter stopped working too, that includes all the fans in the house, GREAT! There was no way I could have got back to sleep in that much heat so I just went out and started working on the bike ...

... 2 suitcases (big Desi ones), 2 bags, 1 Dhol, 1 Sahrahngi, 2 Dholki's, 3 Tabla sets and around 100 Cd's/DVD's. All the instruments are being shipped over by Danny's uncle so we went there first to drop them off. Next stop was Danny's Massi's house. Here we stopped for a late lunch. The food was as delicious as the other day, if I had food like that all the time I would soon put some weight on! We said our goodbyes to the family and the first ...

... shaded in areas by forlorn trees and barbwire. It is a very scary border one which I'm glad I will never have to cross. Our colleague paid a bribe to cross, even though big signs prohibit such behaviour. It was deftly tucked into a package of sweat socks. Pictures are strictly forbidden, as I was told after I taken a few snaps. That is, after they scared the beejeebers ought of me first. Who knew?? Then it was off to the obligatory tourist attraction, the ...

... of the bus - couldn't it have waited until after we all got off the bus? We didn't really know what was going on at first, but pretty much all of the Indians got off within a few minutes and started walking. After about 15 minutes, we asked what was going on, how much longer they would be doing repairs, and how far it was to town. Finding out it wasn't far, we decided to walk to the bus station, but ended up getting picked back up by the same bus about 10 minutes after we ...

... another day some friends and I took a cooking class to learn the art of momo-making. In my case I'd hesitate to call it an art, but give me time.... I also walked the other day down the steep and windy road to lower Dharamsala - a road where pedestrians need to be just as alert as drivers to oncoming traffic - it was a rather hairy walk. On the way, I passed some grand (for the area) gates, with signs stating "Beware of the Dogs" and "Entry by appointment only ...