Food Poisoning - Welcome to India

So the dreaded Delhi Belly has got me. It was not pleasant. In fact it was rotten, but I've survived to tell the tale - although i will spare you the details! I felt awful after dinner and went to my room and then i was sick and unwell all night. My German friends, Sabina and Christina, came to check on me after yoga in the morning and saw that i wasn't in good shape. But they had to leave to go back to Delhi at 1pm that day so before they went they told Johnathan, A French-Canadian guy who is staying at the cottage, and Victor, a Guatemalan guy who I met at one of the coffee shops in town and who gave me a lift home on his motorbike, and they both looked after me so well all day! John told me he would stay around the cottage that day and make sure i was ok and call the Doc if nec. They came to see I was ok every few hours, and they brought me water! It was so nice to have people to look after me - I was so miserable.

I guess it is easy to make friends travelling, and when something goes wrong everyone helps each other.

After 2 days in bed i felt much better - not 100% but a vast improvement! The boys decided they wanted to go on a bike trip up into the mountains. So John and Nati, an Israeli guy, hired a motorbike for the day and I got a lift with Victor and off we went up to Kunjapuri Temple at the top of one of the mountains.

It's over 1000m above Rishikesh and at the top of the highest mountain around. We drove for about an hour along pretty good roads, through thick dark green forests getting higher all the time and making sure not to run over the people who have decided to go for a nap in the middle of the road... It was amazing! It was a hot sunny day but when we got into the shade on the other side of the mountain it was freezing. We had to leave the bikes just below the temple and walk up the 308 steps to the temple. And the views were great. We arrived at about 3pm so the smog and mist had started to settle in but we could still see for miles, we were on top of the world! Or at least the tallest thing we could see! And if you looked to the north and squinted a bit you could just about make out the snow-capped mountain tops of the Himalayas! Amazing!

We came down slowly on the bikes, stopping for masala chai at a small town along the way. I always thought people who ride motorbikes were crazy but I can see why they love it, it feels very free and exciting being on a bike.

It was a fab day - hopefully many more like it to come...


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