Udaipur

Its Bec back! Rudi has gone on strike coz he didn’t have much fun today and to be honest it has been a completely draining day! We met up with our driver at about 9:30 and he took us to a nice garden with several fountains. It was very nice! We then went to another jewellery shop that Suds friend worked at but we couldn’t find what we were looking for. We bought a few other things that we did not go in for! We are good at that! They are good at selling us stuff we do not intend to buy! We then went to what Sud had told us was a village about 10km out of town. Well it was but this village had lots of market like stores set up and every 2 metres you were convinced to take a seat and “just look…looking is free…Im artist not businessman I want to show you my work.” We would leave each store broker and loaded with more stuff we didn’t intend to buy! We had a guide with us and he told us a lot of interesting information about village life, marriage, Hinduism, and the different areas of India. Without being dragged into every store it would have been quite good but we were totally over it by the end and actually just wanted to get out of there. In between all the stores there were a few performances of different dances and music from different parts of India. They were very good! So after 3 hours of mostly torture we left and when Sud said there wasn’t much else to do in Udaipur we were very happy to return to our hotel for some much needed peace and quiet. We had some lunch and headed back to look at all our ‘special purchases‘! Rudi was mentally exhausted and wanted a nana nap but we decided to head back down the street and pick up my dress that I had ordered last night. On the way we were greeted by almost every shop owner in the street and asked to look at there shop and Rudi was asked if we wanted a Rickshaw and on refusal asked if he would like some joints! Now that’s a multi business! We got there and after some small talk I got to try it on. I was mostly happy with it! Looks nice from the front but the back is a little bit high, I feel like a school girl in a pinafore. I am glad I go it though and the material is very pretty. I got out without being convinced to buy another dress and Rudi escaped without a suit or shirt despite the persistent effort of the shop man. We headed back down via a few more shops and bought some drinks for tonight. We quickly had a HOT shower as the hot water is only between 9am-6pm and we are normally home to late so it is cold! I hadn’t showered for 3 days so was good, Rudi had braved the cold showers so he was a little disgusted at my dirtiness! We are enjoying a few drinks and about to go and order more food! Ok haven’t made it to the roof top restaurant yet but went down the street to get more soft drink to mix with our drinks! I asked the shop owner if he had insect spray, as there have been lots of mosquitoes in our room the last few nights and he said yes I have sexy spray! Rudi and I cracked up laughing and when the shop owner worked out what we were after he laughed as well and still tried to sell us sexy spray too! Very funny! We are LOVING the food! Think we are going to have to get some cooking lessons back home! Anyway that’s all for today! Missing everyone but definitely not ready to come home yet! We are already sad we are half way through our time in India!

Lesson learnt continued:
* India is very cheap and expensive at the same time!
* In India…do not mistake Insect spray for Sexy Spray!
* Insect Spray smells better than the hotel rooms!
* Indians do understand the word NO, you just have to tell them 100 times before they believe you!
* Get fat and have lots of natural padding before coming to India as the mattress is almost non existent!