The last few days have been a bit of a blur of not doing a
lot and avoiding any thoughts of what I’m going to do in the coming weeks.
Friday 30th January 2015
This morning I left the meditation centre at about 8am after
having breakfast and cleaning up my room packing and saying goodbyes to all the
friends’ id made in the last 12 hours since talking had recommenced. Mark and I
headed back into Jaipur on his bike it was fucking cold but at least there was
barely any traffic so the drive only took about 15mins
We had space booked at a guest house and so headed there and
chilled out we had chai (well I didn’t since it’s my idea of a sugary milky
hell but everyone else seemed to be inhaling the stuff) we sat around for a
good few hours before getting our shit together and setting off on a trek up to
Nahargarh fort to get some exercise after sitting on the floor for the last ten
days.
By the time we hit the bottom of the hill the sun was out
and it was quite hot the walk was more of a struggle than it should have been
but wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be and neither of us had to stop
so that was a result. We got to the top and had to pay an entrance fee to the
fort despite the fact that we didn’t actually bother to go inside (I did visit
it last time I was in India) we climbed a part of the wall and sat on top
overlooking the city and enjoying the sunshine for a few hours.
When finally we headed down we were starving and so stopped
off for lunch where we went nuts after ten days of eating what was given to us
choice was too hard and so we ate everything on the menu.
Back at the guest house we chilled on the roof terrace and
ate even more when we were given a free Thali for bringing such good energy
into the place from the meditation centre.
Saturday 31st January 2015
This morning we slept super later taking full advantage of
the fact there was no going to wake us up!
I got somewhat productive and called a contact about some
volunteering I have been trying to set up the result of the conversation wasn’t
overly clear and so I pushed that to the back of my mind and tried to live in
the moment
After a lazy morning that included a hot shower and lots of
breakfast we headed off on the bike to a mechanic I stood about looking pretty
while the men talked shop then went in search of super huge scarf blankets
Shopping was a success and we came out with massive woollen
scarfs and celebrated by eating large quantities of naan.
Again we spent most of the afternoon chilling on the roof
terrace while I avoided thinking about where to go to next.
Sunday 1st February 2015
It’s hard to believe that we are already into month two of
2015 time is just flying by!
Since it was a Sunday I decided to take full advantage of
the fact and do nothing all day I spent my time reading, writing, catching up
on fb and Instagram, taking a walk that lasted about 10mins and resulted in a
bag of chocolate and then sitting talking philosophy with a baba while taking
opium and smoking a pipe overall it was a pretty good lazy Sunday. After the
opium I did get a tad productive and ended up writing a lot and then headed out
to meet verity in town.
We met at a café and had a ‘fresh’ lime soda and a massive
chat before walking around to her Indian family’s house for dinner. They were
such beautiful people so welcoming and kind and the food was amazing! We left
later in the evening to get to the shops before they closed typically for me I ended
up with a bag full of chocolate and cookies and then it was time to get a
rickshaw back to the guesthouse.
The rickshaw said he knew where he was going but we did a
little tiki tour of the area before we finally found the place where I felt so
spaced out and crashed almost instantly.
Monday 2nd February 2015
I got up this morning and made a conscious effort to stop
being such a smelly bitch and actually have a shower, it’s always hard to get
clean when it’s cold and the water is colder.
Once washed mark and I headed off to get some breakfast then
walked to the mechanics where he had left his motorbike a few days prior once
collected we came back and lounged about for a while trying to figure out
somewhere to drive to test the bike a bit in the end we just headed out of town
found a big rocky hill and climbed it.
I had my Toms on and they certainly weren’t the greatest
shoes to be scrambling up a hill in and so I complained the whole way up (but let’s
face it I’m a whinger if it wasn’t the shoes it would be something else) the
view from the top was pretty spectacular the only thing ruining it was that we
could see what looked like two dead animals laying in a field.
We scrambled down and upon further inspection found that it
was a dead calf and then further on a cow both were mostly intact and had been
skinned and left in a field it was the weirdest thing ever so we got out of
there pretty quick.
Back in the city we lounged about and I was determined to
finish the book Maezee gave me way back in Madurai that I have been carrying around
but haven’t read. I accomplished this and as a treat we went to the cinema
We saw a Hindi film called baby from what we could gather
(which was actually quite a lot) it was an action movie about a special task
force that deals with terrorism it was good but super long and so I took a bit
of a nap somewhere after intermission
By the time we arrived back at the guesthouse it was pretty
much midnight and we were locked out we had to ring for them to open the door
and we crashed out.
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