hail!

in mysore at present. not much to do here apart from struggle to find someplace nice to eat. walked to the top of some suposedly good karma inducing hill today. 1000 steps to the top, only to find, much like everywhere else that the top is infested with shops, hawkers, tedious temples, ect.

had an icecream which tasted like i was slurping on a lepers weeping sore. i chucked it down the mountain. the taste clung to my mouth so i had some water melon from a roadside minion. best i have had so far, very refreshing. the fruit in india has been pretty dissapointing, cheap but not very good. getting a fruit juice is such a gamble as to whether its nice or not that its easier to stick to the good old minaral water, which i now hear is laced with pestacides. nice!

 

 thanks for the letter ma! sounds like that trip home was pretty grim. hopefully my flights will run smoothly. i strongly refute the charge that i get up at 1.00pm! its closer to 12.30 than anything else! sleep is reletivly tricky at present, last night in perticular an indian family camped in the corridor of our hotel at around 4.30am. their children (of which there were many) played some sort of running and shouting game outside our door, which was apprently one of those games that can be played tirelesly and without sceaseing for many hours. all in all i don’t sleep that well.

on a good note hampi was really nice. only problem was we left too soon. might head back after bangalore. 

will blog properly when we get to banglore.  

love jul

 

p.s actually shantaram is true, or at least as true as papillion, which i have just read. rather good.