The palace would make good target practice…..
Sunday, November 1st, 2009On our last night in Mysore (we were lucky enough to be there on a saturday) we visited the palace, saturdays are speacial as the palace and grounds are lit with thousands of golden glowing bulbs, making it look like something from a fairytale or an overly expensive palace using alot of electricty. I would not like to be the person looking for the faulty bulbs. I would however…love to take a sling shot or pellet gun there for some target pra ctice….I wont though. The guards have bigger guns for one.
Afterwards we went to Hotel Pooja’s ‘Infinte’ a roof top bar and resturant with gorgeous views excellent service and good food (indian,chinese,international) and drinks…wonderful fruity cocktails…we felt strange being in a place so posh after our budget traveling but the prices were very fair and the atmosphere relaxed.
It was just what we needed after a busy day running round after banks and travel agents. The latter was fine, it just took a while to come across one, but when we did we had this brilliant man, with a very direct and intense attitude (in a friendly/helpful and funny way) We are booked on a bus to somewhere near Gokarna tonite, then we have to get a local bus to Om beach, where we are stayin atop a hill with a view of the ocean. A place called Namaste cafe. I cant wait.
We stayed in Hotel Dasharath last night. I experience my first lot of hot water in over a month this morning!…..a tartan quilt is luxury after government buses and sheets with bugs in at the Dasaprakash! Also when your on the road the little things make you very happy…tartan for one… marmite for two ( i have sighted chicken flavoured bovril but no marmite as yet)
I has a angsty stress as i discovered that my visa card had stopped working…not good…when i eventually got through to the bank I discovered it had been blocked for a security measure…tuh! But nice to know im safe……the card was unblocked and let me pay for cocktails last night (Infinate had chip and pin!) so lets hope i can unblock it today so i can buy some reading material for our trip to a lake :>
You’ll here from me next if I find time to drag my self off the beach to check email…