One day, two posts

It isn't going to be often that I will have a chance to blog or email whilst in India, so I am making the most of a relatively quiet day at fieldbase to mess around on the internet and update my blog for the second time today. Since I last wrote, the others came back from their 2nd day of trekking (which I missed due to sickness) with stories of monkey babies and temples and villages. Very sad to have missed it, but doing another trek with residual sunstroke wouldn't have been much fun.

Around mid-afternoon we headed into Mysore for our swim tests in a nearby hotel followed by cocktails. Once the venturers arrive we won't be able to drink alcohol, so I began to acclimatise myself to the idea of an alcohol-free existence with a lovely mocktail banana colada (fresh cocount cream and bananas - MMmm, who needs alcohol?!).

A few of us headed into Mysore for a spot of shopping, which was great fun. I can't believe the traffic, people, cows and general horn blowing in the centre of town. It bucketed it down just as we left the "More Mega" supermarket-cum-department store, which was where I bought most of my new clothes, but we got a tuk-tuk back to fieldbase which was exciting to say the least.

We're getting pizza delivered tonight for a special treat, but I'm already missing my curry! Hopefully there will be curry for breakfast tomorrow...