A happy holy holi holiday
Today is the festival of Holi where we celebrate the victory of goodness and niceness over the forces of badness and nastiness; and what better way of celebrating this than anointing each other with coloured stuff (and other stuff it turn out).
After breakfast we walk up coronary hill and then on to the next village where celebrations are well underway,
We wait in trepidation on the roof of a village house as random characters appear to smear coloured powder on our faces and then the raucous boys arrive(perhaps representing the forces of badness) and they have a rather amusing variation on the colour thing- they have buckets of mud and cow dung which they are happy to share around; they all seem to be under the influence of intoxicating substances but their general demeanour is very good natured.
We return to the smokehouse via coronary hill
and remove the detritus of holi, lunch and then up coronary hill for the 3 hour death defying drive to Freddy's bungalow.
It turns our Freddy was also known as Mr India Butterfly and had a formidable collection of lepidoptera species all on display for our delectation.
We hook up with a charming couple from Delhi and manage to finish off each other's whisky supplies over a fine dinner.
After breakfast we walk up coronary hill and then on to the next village where celebrations are well underway,
We wait in trepidation on the roof of a village house as random characters appear to smear coloured powder on our faces and then the raucous boys arrive(perhaps representing the forces of badness) and they have a rather amusing variation on the colour thing- they have buckets of mud and cow dung which they are happy to share around; they all seem to be under the influence of intoxicating substances but their general demeanour is very good natured.
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| Ashram of the Shivmeister |
We hook up with a charming couple from Delhi and manage to finish off each other's whisky supplies over a fine dinner.
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