Surendra Plaza Jalandhar

... out side the Gurudwara one sikh, asked me for a lift for Thermal Colony, he was employe of Thermal, so in order to give that guy lift we changed our road plane we and did some off roading near Tharmal Plant. By this time the noice of my Bike's chain was too loud, and i knew i was in trouble, but me and Balli then decided that we would find any machenicin Ropar, which was 15km from there. After droping that Sikh guy at outside of Tharmal Colony ...

... I leave!!! I highly recommend finding a Havelli's if you're in India, it's high quality entertainment and great food. Havelli's is vegetarian which is gd because it has been really easy to stay clear of the meat up until now.

Day 209 Mon 5th June 2006 Getting things finished at Pind I took my time getting out of bed this morning, not surfacing till gone 10.30am. The plan was to get a few things sorted around the house and then get my stuff packed up ready for leaving early tomorrow morning. The first thing I wanted to do was put up the name plate outside the house, but there was a problem with the holes for the mounting screws. I had to drop it off at a place in ...

Day 203 Tue 30th May 2006 It finally all catches up with me! I got up this morning feeling battered, my body was aching all over and I wasn't in the mood to do anything. I tried the print out of the sign and it was a perfect fit. The Pind's folk put on a 'Shpeel' today. It's when you give away free water to people passing by, people often do it during the summer months. It was outside the Gurdwara so I went over there for a while to see what was going on (see pics). I didn't ...

... was much harder that I thought it was going to be as all the signs were in Punjabi (I really should and could have learned how to read and write it in the time I have been here). I eventually got auntie registered for 10INR and took her to the eye centre to get her examined. We already know she has cataracts in both her eyes, but we just wanted to know how long she could leave it before getting it operated on. The first two tests took ...

Day 195 Mon 22nd May 2006 Bob the builder in Nawa Pind What a day! After working on the bike yesterday, I was in 'Bob the Builder' mode today and got a couple of things done around the house, that should have been done along time ago. I started off looking at the bike again, the ignition switch needed sorting and there is a cold start problem with it, I got the switch sorted but the cold start is a bit out of my league. I had a major tidy up of the house, after my ...

... Ajit Music House. Both Tabla sets were ready so we settled the bill and made our way over to Model town. We had to exchange a faulty CD, and would you believe it, ended up buying yet more CD's!!! Danny and Ajee both brought extra bags for hand luggage. We got back to hotel for around 12.30, we all finished our packing (I came back to pind today) and loaded up the car. Danny and Ajee have amassed quite a lot of stuff to take back, between them they ...

... norm. The next day we made a trip to the Pakistani border. One of our host's friends was returning to his homeland. The border is an exercise in futility. Every truck that approaches the border must be emptied and coolies unload and carry all goods across the border by hand. Everything, box by box carried by old men for 11 rupees one way and eight the other, (I'm not sure which way is more profitable). The must carry there burden for about 1 km, over hot concrete ...

As we wrote in our last entry, we returned to Manali by jeep after our week+ stay in Ladakh. After spending a few days in Manali recovering from our jeep ride, we took two days to get ourselves to the city of Dharamsala. It was a long few days on several different crowded buses winding up and down mountain roads. The first bus on the second travel day made itself memorable by stopping for a new fuel filter about 2 miles before our stop, which also happened to be the final ...

... women. As I've moved through India, all the shops, restaurants and hotels I've frequented have been run by men, with women scarcely seen at all, even as cleaners. Up here, it seems women run the show, though there are plenty of male subordinates: for example most restaurants are managed by women, but the cooks and waiters are mostly men. I haven't done ENTIRELY nothing here - Akshay and I walked the pleasant road to Baghsu, another part of McLeod Ganj, one ...