Hi Everyone,
So Saturday just gone we went on a trek with the Bangalore Mountaineering Club. They organise a lot of treks, both around Bangalore and further afield. We have decided to go to the Himalayas with them in a couple of weeks, so thought we would get some practice in with a day trek to start with!
We went to a rock called Savandurga, about 60km from Bangalore. It is thought to be the largest monolithic rock in Asia. It certainly is one big rock!
It ended up being quite a long day really, we had to be at the pickup point at 6.30am, and then, as is generally the case with such things, we set off late and then spent a while driving around Bangalore to the other pickup points. We stopped for breakfast en route and finally got there at about 10.30.
The walk wasn't very far at all really, only about 3 miles total, but it was quite steep, and pretty much just up, and then down again. There were a few somewhat unprepared souls amongst us, so some of it was a bit slow going. But there were lots of lovely people to talk to and waiting gave us a chance to chat.
It was really good fun and we are really looking forward to the Himalayan trek. Although I am slightly worried that I need to be a bit fitter! A couple of trips to the gym required I think!
Yesterday there was a 'Bandh' in Bangalore, a strike, in protest about the lack of things being done following the gang rape of a 6 year old at a school a couple of weeks ago. Ben's office was shut, although a couple of rebels (including Ben) did work as they would have had to arrange a different day to work instead otherwise. Ben thankfully wasn't up for working on a Saturday!
Thought I'd share a few random things that have made me smile (or say 'really?!') this week.
It always makes me chuckle who people choose to talk to when we go out together. We went to a shopping mall the other night. If Ben is there they generally always talk to him and not me. Except in the chocolate shop and the shampoo shop where it was all about me!
We were looking for some antiperspirant deodorant for Ben because so far we have only been able to find deodorant (no antiperspirant). The ever helpful shop assistant's response on not finding any - 'what do you want that for?!'
I got told off at the post office yesterday for licking the stamps I bought! Apparently not 'self gumming', although I have to say the one I licked seemed to stay on better than the ones I stuck on at the gumming counter!
Next weekend we are off to the Himalayas for a week, so quite excited about that and I have a North Indian cooking class on Monday and Lata is coming saree shopping with me on Tuesday, all very exciting!
Love to everyone,
Kathryn and Ben
PS. if there is anything specific you want me to ramble about please let me know! :-)
So Saturday just gone we went on a trek with the Bangalore Mountaineering Club. They organise a lot of treks, both around Bangalore and further afield. We have decided to go to the Himalayas with them in a couple of weeks, so thought we would get some practice in with a day trek to start with!
We went to a rock called Savandurga, about 60km from Bangalore. It is thought to be the largest monolithic rock in Asia. It certainly is one big rock!
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| The 1st bit was pretty steep and had a few people nearly beaten. |
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| The warm up! |
The walk wasn't very far at all really, only about 3 miles total, but it was quite steep, and pretty much just up, and then down again. There were a few somewhat unprepared souls amongst us, so some of it was a bit slow going. But there were lots of lovely people to talk to and waiting gave us a chance to chat.
It was really good fun and we are really looking forward to the Himalayan trek. Although I am slightly worried that I need to be a bit fitter! A couple of trips to the gym required I think!
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| He was waiting to greet us at the top! |
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| Matching by accident! |
Yesterday there was a 'Bandh' in Bangalore, a strike, in protest about the lack of things being done following the gang rape of a 6 year old at a school a couple of weeks ago. Ben's office was shut, although a couple of rebels (including Ben) did work as they would have had to arrange a different day to work instead otherwise. Ben thankfully wasn't up for working on a Saturday!
Thought I'd share a few random things that have made me smile (or say 'really?!') this week.
It always makes me chuckle who people choose to talk to when we go out together. We went to a shopping mall the other night. If Ben is there they generally always talk to him and not me. Except in the chocolate shop and the shampoo shop where it was all about me!
We were looking for some antiperspirant deodorant for Ben because so far we have only been able to find deodorant (no antiperspirant). The ever helpful shop assistant's response on not finding any - 'what do you want that for?!'
I got told off at the post office yesterday for licking the stamps I bought! Apparently not 'self gumming', although I have to say the one I licked seemed to stay on better than the ones I stuck on at the gumming counter!
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| I don't know why but it makes me chuckle that eggs come in bags! |
Love to everyone,
Kathryn and Ben
PS. if there is anything specific you want me to ramble about please let me know! :-)
Looks like you are having a great time.
ReplyDeleteThis blog is so good. I am really jealous of all your wonderful adventures but so pleased for you both. Take lots of photos when you go to the Himalayas. Don't try and pretend that your shirts were not colour co-ordinated after the purple collection of a few weeks ago! With regard to what I would like to hear about, can you tell me what sort of food you are cooking, where you are buying your ingredients and Kathryn is the cookery course proving to be useful. Fantastically interesting blog. Keep it coming.
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ReplyDeleteWe like the blog. It's a great way of keeping up with what you are doing.
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