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High tea
... and toothless grannies, over rivers, over rocks. We wandered past packs of dogs and past bleating goats. Our final part was a hike up a mountain. Over short spiky grasses, through bracken and fern, climbing over lichen covered rocks and finally to a rock strewn summit which commanded views of the entire valley and of the walk we had undertaken. It was a beautiful view of rolling mountains decorated with forest and a handful of small villages. Mist ...
OOOOOOOoooooooty!
... then look away, hoping not to be the one put on the spot! One of the Scots stepped up, meanwhile we all watched and critiqued his OSCE skills. Luckily this all happened at the very end of the walk with the bus only a few minutes walk away.
We had just enough energy left at the end of our stroll for 9 medical students who were meant to be in school to go competitive pedallo-ing on the lake back in Ooty town. We did not win, ...
Ooty 6
... of how to get his email address: He had told me that he spent a lot of time with the Toda tribespeople, who live just behind the Botanical Garden. So I got the idea to visit those tribespeople and see if I could find some of the people he hung out with. I figured that he would have left his email address with these people as he got quite close to them during his several weeks in Ooty.
So, off I went to the Botanical Garden again - this time not paying ...
Ooty 3
... Pakistan. All eyes throughout the land were glued to the TV sets. The tangible result for me was that there was no Tandoori chicken for my dinner sandwiches. I don't know what the correlation was. I suppose the cooks were in no mood to cook when there was such an important cricket match on TV.
Thursday, 31 March, 2011
It is the end of the month - and with that my rent was due. As I was paying my rent, my landlady told me that ...
Greetings from Ooty
... first few days, fresh with enthusiasm for exploring an exotic land and culture, I found it initially confronting, but bearable. And while I've dealt with it better on some days than others, yesterday it got the better of me. For it seems far worse when I'm loaded up with my backpack than at other times. Perhaps that's just because I look ridiculous with such a large bag on my back!
People here do unashamedly stare. And I can understand it to some ...
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