So still on my road trip but heading back to McLeod today. We started off on Friday when me and Baby decided to hire a motorbike, we got an Enfield as it looks nice and had heard they were good bikes, yeah right! Our journey started with us on the bike for 30 mins we hadn't even got out of Dharamasala but we broke down as we had run out of petrol already. Got ourselves sorted and then headed for a place called Bier. With a name like that just knew I should go there! The ride was really beautiful, driving through the mountains, the scenery was just awesome. It took us about 3 hours and we went and stayed with one of Baby's relatives. A lovely man called Lobsung who made me feel so welcome, he has 2 boys aged 8 and 10 and when the boys went to get supplies for dinner I was left with the kids which resulted in us doing headstands against a wall and having running races, what cool kids! We made momos for dinner and it was just a lovely evening. The next morning we got ready to leave at 8 and when we went to start the heap of shit, sorry I mean the Enfield it wouldn't start for love nor money. We ended up taking it to a mechanic who couldn't do much with it either, we found this out after 6 hours of waiting around while he fiddled with the bike. So in the end I called the shop told them they're bike was shite and that I was leaving it at the garage and would not be paying any more money for the day's hire, they were trying to charge me but I feel they must have felt my wrath as in the end they agreed and we left the bike and got on a bus to Manali, bout 8 hours away.
We met up with Soph and Jam who are having a bit of a honey moon here. It is a stunning place. Me and Baby got a cool room with gorgeous views of the Himalayas. The first day me and Baby just hung out playing pool, drinking some Kingfishers and watched a movie, 300 Men, god knows what it was about but the effects were great. The next day 6 of us went up the mountains to Rohtung, which the views were just wow wow and more wow. Soph and Jam rode a bike up and me,Baby, Salli and Christine got a taxi, I had certainly had my fill with bikes by now. It took us about 3 hours to get to the top driving past glaciers, horses grazing, shephards with their flock. When we got to the top there were yaks, skiing if you wanted it, but that looked a bit shite. Me and Soph hired some coats as it were a bit chilly mine was a dodgy red number but in a weird sort of way I thought it looked quite cool. We hung out at the top for a bit drinking tea and then made for our way back down. As we were driving we noticed a crew of vultures so we stopped to take a look and they were feasting on the carcus of a cow. It was amazing to be up that close.
So yesterday was my birthday yay! I still get as excited as a 6 year old about it. Me and Baby went to ride some yaks but when I got there the poor things looked so sad that I didn't want to add to their troubles by putting my fat arse on one so we just sat there and watched them. On the way a Punjabi army officer stopped us, he was with a group of teenagers, bout 20 of them and wanted his picture taken with me, ( good to have my fanbase back!) and then I was introduced to each student where they shook my hand and told me their name, all very surreal. Met up with Mr & Mrs Jam for some lunch and then again for dinner. Honestly I just never stop eating here. We went to a lil Tibetan restaurant where as we were sitting at the table the waitress came over with a cake for me with " Happy Birthday Annie Kingfisher " iced on it. I was very touched that the guys had gone to such trouble as really wasn't expecting anything at all. So it was a lovely simple birthday, probably one of the first in a while where I haven't go totally smashed, just had a few cheeky ones.
So our bus leaves at 8 this evening which will get us into McLeod about 6 in the morning. I kinda don't want to go back as loving this holiday feeling but all good things must come to an end, also I need a change of clothes as originally we were only coming away for a night so have been in the same smelly clothes for 6 days, no wonder the flies won't leave me alone. Anyway peeps thats it for now will write soon peace and love and all that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
