Orchha

Well we had a lovely dinner last night with a couple from Switzerland and another couple from England. Was really funny swapping stories and knowing we weren’t alone on some of our crazy experiences. The English girl had a very funny story about Bhang Lassi and a hippy energy healer. Anyway had breakfast with the Swiss couple this morning and helped them book a few hotels we had stayed at as they were stressing they didn’t have accomodation. She used our phone and was very grateful! They gave Rudi and I some Swiss chocolates when we left! It was yummy! So we hit the road and about 3 hours in I was busting for the toilet. I asked sud if he could stop at the next toilet he saw…well 2 hours later and over 100km down…bumpy gravel roads…I was lying on the backseat with my legs on rudi unable to move in fear I would pee myself! Rudi eventually made him stop seeing the pain on my face and we went bush! Sud was very apologetic that he could not find us a toilet and we could see he felt so bad….he was trying so hard and driving fast trying to get me to a toilet! I can laugh about it now but was not funny at all at the time! Anyway by this time we were almost at Orchha the next stop on our adventure and we had to find the little village we were staying in. We had some help by a motorbike escort and we arrived in the village. Sud laughed at us as he said “is this really where you are staying?” He thought it was hilarious! Anyway we went up to the family ‘house’ where we were staying and the parents were out but we met the two elder girls Rohini and Nidhi. We chilled out as we couldn’t talk much to them as they speak very little English. Rohini made us a cup of chai and we checked out our room. To be honest it looked a lot nicer than most of the other places we have stayed so we were very impressed. We quickly met their pets, Somon the cute little kitten, he’s very friendly and Metu the green parakeet who whistles and says his name constantly! He is just like Taj, but the poor thing is in the tiniest cage! He seems pretty happy though.The parents came back and we met the dad Ram Babu, the mum Kiran and the youngest daughter Kushi! They are a lovely family but it is a shame we cant talk to them and know more about them. We are learning basic hindi to say thank you and the food is very good but that’s about as far as it goes. We went to our room as it was getting cold and played some cards by candle light. There is electricity but we kinda feel bad using it if we don’t really need it. We then got given a bucket of hot water to have a wash with so rudi went first to a little shed and had a wash, while I braved the squat toilet! I then had a bucket wash, wasn’t so bad….nicer than the cold showers we have been having! We played some more cards then Ram Babu came and got us and told us to come. We followed him into the tiny kitchen where Kiran was making chapati and we were told to sit on a blanket in the corner. They had to take some of the pots down that were hanging on the roof because Rudi was too tall. He honestly looked like a giant in the little kitchen hut! So we sat on the floor and ate a lovely dinner. Three different vegetable curries and chapati! Was delicious. We heard the girls singing in the other hut across from the kitchen and they told us we could go over. So we went over and the girls were sitting on the floor watching a very old black and white tv, with a very new dvd player aswell. We sat with them and watched some hindi dvd not knowing anything that was going on but was cute watching the girls. This was the room where they all sleep. Anyway after the girls had a fight and one was crying we decided it was time for us to go to bed. We said goodnight and went to our room and played some more cards. We were very tired so got a fairly early night. Our beds are like camping stretches but they don’t fold up! Very comfy with a big warm doona and a mosquito net that hangs over the beds! Looks very nice! Hope we sleep well!