The road to Pushka

Tuesday 3^rd February 2015

Today was such a beautiful day that after eating breakfast we jumped on the bike and headed to central park I was pretty dubious that it would actually be a nice park but it exceeded expectations and was really nice surprisingly other than a few hellos people didn’t really come up to us that much and so we whiled away the afternoon with mark fast asleep and me reading my book. The park was full of really cool birds including some sort of massive bird of prey!

Eventually we got hungry and missioned it to food stopping only for mark to fuel up on caffeine at a ‘real’ coffee shop. Food was good I got an unlimited thali and ate three full platefuls along with eight chapattis and had to waddle out of there.

Feeling stuffed we decided to get moving and so drove to the monkey temple and walked up and down and then back up and down the hill not really looking at anything just charging along the path.

Back at the guesthouse we chilled on the roof terrace got another thali for dinner and stayed up late chatting to people about Pushka and life in general.

Wednesday 4^th February 2015

Today we left Jaipur for Pushka it’s about 130km and took us just less than three hours.

We got up and had a pretty chilled morning heading to the place we have been for breakfast the last few days and then back to the guesthouse where I had a second breakfast. We chilled out until about midday then got our stuff packed and checked out.

When we got to the bike there was a bit of an issue with some of the electrics I don’t really know what as in usually Georgia fashion I wasn’t paying any attention.

While mark was figuring it out a beggar came along the scooting down the road on his arse he clearly had a badly broken leg and looked pretty malnourished my heart went out to him and I was about to give him some money when he pulled a swifty and blatantly started rifling through one of the bags on the ground he didn’t even seem faze when I moved it and politely told him to fuck off he kept going down the road slightly and pulled and wad of money out of his pocket and started giving money to another beggar the whole thing had me baffled.

By 1pm we were on the road the drive was pretty easy going and was super fun weaving in and out of trucks I’m a bit patchy on helmet laws since we keep being told I should have one by police and locals but no one has actually stopped us. By the time we arrived in Pushka my arse was numb and I was hungry.

We found a guesthouse easily enough it’s on the edge of town and is actually a massive tent with another massive room that’s the bathroom best of all it has hot water! We dumped our bags and went and ate an enormous thali before chilling out for the rest of the afternoon.

We were both pretty tired and by 8pm we were in bed watching a movie on my laptop rather than explore the world.

Thursday 5^th February 2015

Today was our least productive day yet we woke up late and instead of getting our shit together we sat on the porch of the tent and smoked when we finally made it to breakfast it was lunchtime and we were half asleep with sunshine and fumes.

After eating we took a walk through the town and I got a bunch of postcards and had my eyebrows threaded I’m pretty happy about having two eyebrows again. We sat by the lake for quite a while watching the world go past and then headed back to our accommodation via a falafel stand which made a change from curry.

Back at the tent I spent the afternoon getting photos off an old SD card, reading and doing some laundry I had all intentions of doing some yoga in the sunshine but one minute it was a beautiful day and the next the sun was gone and it was getting dark.

We were too lazy to even go out for food and ended up eating at our guesthouse which meant sitting on our little porch barely able to see our food eliminated by the single bulb.

Like last night we were absolute sad sacks and sat watching a movie which I fell asleep during meaning I went to sleep at about 9pm like a 10 year old child.