Praise the Lord!! Annie is still the same old beer swilling nut I left behind!! Awake this morning with blood shot eyes and pounding head - a sure sign that me and Annie have been reunited!
Started off tame - fruit juices all round and talks of natural highs before the lure of a Pina Colada was just too much and without even a twist of the arm Annie was back on the booze. Happy Days - - -
Happy hour in Funky Art Cafe where the waiters are hot, hot, hot even if they do bear an uncanny resemblance to Charles and Eddie or was it Milli Vanilli!! Catch up with other ashram escapees who are also indulging in all things not allowed - garlic, onion, caffeine, fags and booze! Glad to see no one really took it all to seriously - also meet many other escapees who depised the rules, routines etc. Helps me to feel less sceptical and cynical - easy too feel this way here as so many people are into spirituality, yoga, meditation etc and you start to wonder if you are missing out on something. Surely with all these followers there must be something in it?!?! However must stay strong and believe my gut feeling that all this stuff is not for me and i can find 'enlightenment' in many other more enjoyable things to me - walks, good old fashioned nature, thoughts of family and anything else that gives me that blissed out happy feeling! Have just been wondering over the last couple of days whether or not i'm in the right country as the spiritual side of india is such a large part of everyday life and som any people around me are getting so much from it where as I just always think to myself ' bollocks!' 'what is the point of all this?' but have decided not to stress over it and look forward to finding parts of India that really get me going - the people and of course Himalayas here i come! Gonna really make an effort to trek as mush as poss around those beautys : )
Anyhow last night was a great reunion with Annie Fanny - so good to be back with her and to be peeing my pants with laughter again! ALso met up with Dave (Goa Dave of the lost love and lost motorbike keys!) Fantastic - I adore him the young whipper snapper - a fun, wild little chappy who you just gotta mother!
Ended the night in Dolphin Bay with a group of fun loving dudes - Miami Vice guys, Smashley, Tania, Ashliene, strange old English chaps and Rolling Stones playing on the decks - who could ask for more. Finally made it back to good old Zions in the early hours after rekindling my relationship with the ol' Kingfisher.
Last night also had a sad vibe to it - there are usually what seems like a thousand candle lights lighting up the sea. They are all the fisherman boats out to sea and it is an incredible sight to view from the clifftop here. However last night there were no more than two lights in the distance and when I asked why this was so I was told that the sea was just too rough for boats this evening and that a guy had drowned early in the day due to these rough seas. News like that seems to hit harder here in such an idylic place and the absence of fishing boats seemed to act as mark of respect for this lost life.
Plan to spend a lazy day here by the sea before our big trip north tomorrow. Look forward to being in Dharamsala soon where the Dalai Lama will also be in residence - am still in awe of this guys wisdom and knowledge so look forward to perhaps another public meet with him.
Love and miss you all Soph xxxxxxxxxx
