Hotel Sharada International Udupi

... some very interesting things about the behaviour of particular people around me...I'll just wait and see if those come true. After the astrologer we visited the krishna temple which was founded by a hindu saint. I didn't even know there were saints in hinduism. Inside the temple is a statue of krishna which emerged from a single chunk of basalt when this saint tapped it once. The temple was of traditional south Indian architecture, with statues perching all the way up the tall ...

... scene, one of them moved - him being the porter - and he woke up the receptionist, who blearily checked us in. It was then Sumi realised they had a 24 hour check in policy, something we had heard of, but so far had not experienced. We double checked that this was the case, and they said yes, we would have to leave by the same time the next morning. I can understand sort of, but surely for us to leave at 4am, he would have to be ...

... en relativt liten inhängnad. Dom hade krokodiler också och jag fick gå in i krokodilburen för att ta foton på lite närmare håll. Det var något spännande. Maten är för övrigt helt ok här med vissa kommentarer. Den är förstås starkare än i hemknutarna, men inget extremt. Tyvärr är det både farligt och svårt att få tag på en ordentlig sallad här så man lever på den sörja dom serverar. Nästan all mat serveras färdigtuggad. Det vore roligt med lite ...

... learnt some sad news about a family friend who had died. In the evening, Pranesh picked me up and insisted we go to a Kali temple a few kilometres away as Friday was the day when people came, by appointment, to tell their problems to the goddess Kali (an incarnation of Shiva's wife Parvati and responsible for world order and in her form as Durga, she is the goddess of destruction and war). A queue of people and family groups stood to tell their woes of ...

... friend for the last week of my trip. Claudine if you're reading you probably didn't know how happy I was to meet you after all the sleazy men!! Claudine is from Swizterland and we look rather similar which is fun. We had a laugh pretending to be related. We met after ordering the exact same breakfast (continental with cornflakes, milk and pineapple juice of course). It was so good to meet her because unlike me the sleazy guys made her laugh and didn't stress ...

... forty, pracitising Poi on the beach. Their practice became more fervent in run up to the fire juggling extravaganza, during which one poor woman set fire to her hair, on New Year's Eve. The music policy needed some work but the staff, all of whom came from Vinood's home village in the mountains, were so lovely and smiley that they made up for everything. And the food, though often a long time coming, was always amazing. From Hawaii, we could walk along the very long ...

... money off you as they can. Even when bribing the police here you have to barter down the price it started at 2500 rupees but after some negotiating got him down to 400 rupees. There not taking any more of my beer money. So that night it was more beers and soccer at the local bar. This is where we found our self amongst and Indian all in brawl. Now there was some argument between one guy and another about a girl or something so these ...

... of wild Canada. I think his father would have been quite proud to have such a son. Later in the week the rest of the "crew" arrived, English Dan, also known as "caveman," and various other nicknames, a man-mountain, tougher than steel with a heart of gold. Stuart, a scot from the south of scotland, a ballad-singing, joke telling man, quick with a smile, and even quicker with a hearty laugh, "T-bone," his girlfriend, who, even though she sometimes thinks it is time to go, only gently ...

... the more 'luxury' items that people miss from home. Amongst the items that were available, for example, were foods from every nation - from falafel to fish and chips. Our personal favourites were banoffee pie (not a touch on Diane's though !), marmite and cappuccino. Although we had not booked somewhere to stay in Palolem we found a beach hut with ease. The hut was within 50 yards of the sea and cost 3 pounds a night. We had planned to stay here just a single day but ...

... tops made the other day, the first time that I have ever been to a tailor - cos we dont really do that - do we? ps - I have a new guy called Ash 23/11/04 Had a great day at work today, the couple almost bought the product so I would have made a huge $500!! ha ha Big excitement here in the country, an elephant went on a rampage and toured thru my cafe this morning ...