Some answers
The food
Most of the questions you have are about the food. We allmost always eat indian food. And 99 per cent of the time it's vegetarian. Suprised? At first it just felt good to eat vegtables instead of chicken or meat (to avoid getting sick) but as we got further along we just continued to go veggie! We're not doing it too loose weight or anything - the food is covered with fat. Our normal dinner contains of; two different kinds of vegtable mixes, it can be anything from tomato fry, vegtables, potatoes in a spicy-mix with fat (ghee). Sounds a bit stange maybe but it's good! Then we share some rice (sometimes with some kind of flavour to it if we want to be a bit more luxurious) and order in some naan(bigtime favourite!). We have discovered a very nice snack which is called Pakora. It's vegtables (or cheese, chicken) that are shaped into small balls and deepfried. And of course they are spicy!
Once or twice we've gotten sick of all this chapati, curd, curry, masalablablabla and yes, we have sined. We didn't write it on the blog... because we were ashamed. It happend in Varanasi. Our hotel was at least a halfhour with a bumby riksha down to a restaurant. We walked just a few meters from our hotel and a big light hit us! The big yellow "M" couldn't have come in a better moment. We went in orderd a hell of a lot of food (all vegetarian!) and before we knew it we had committed to a sin. At least while beeing in India. It was tasty, we enjoyed it. End of story.
We're thinking about taking a cooking class in the end of the trip (to keep it all in mind) and hopefully we'll be able to cook for you all!
The cellphone
We just want to remind everyone that you can send us textmessages BUT to our swedish numbers. I think we get them all! The thing is, we will answer you with our indian number but you still have to keep texting to our number. NOT to our indian number! For some reason we don't get those messages. Now, did I make myself clear? :D
Stomach disorder
We havn't got it! Yet. We're both amazed. We eaten everything that you schouldn't: ice cream, fruit, we even brush our teeth in indian water... I promise you that we'll get in now that were getting so cocky!
Our driver
As we promised our mums we have been sugar coding the blog a bit. Here comes a short version, but the real version about our driver Manoj. He was quite nice, talked a lot of shit (as many people do), drank to much (not while driving though!), smoked something that made him giggle (not while driving) and... the last day we found out that he was an alcoholic. Which made sense. Allthough... he drove unbelivably... quite well... The end.
The heat
Some people worry about the heat. We're down south as you may know and it's hot. We can't argue with that. We're quite used to it now because in the north it was about 25-30 degrees and down here it's about 35. Now when we are in Munnar up in the mountains it's about ten degrees in the night and about 25 in the day and we're walking around in our hoodies! Right now it's nine in the evening and I am wearing layers! But our plans for our trip will help us cope with the heat a bit...
We will give you some more answers another day! ( If you have questions - comment! )
Lots of love to you all!!!!
Jättekul att få svar på alla (o)uttalade frågor, men många är kvar förstås! Vad kostar en Big mac i Indien?:)Ni är så hemlighetsfulla om era planer, vi är väldigt nyfikna!Vi följer er på Google Maps...
Igår var det Den Stora Festen, Pontus' disp.fest. Blev väldigt lyckat o trevligt. 60 gäster där vi föräldrapar var äldst :) Ingrid var med och gick till slut o lade sig med morfar (som inte somnade). Idag har vi plockat iordning, tvättat dukar med vinspill, planterat påskliljor ute o är rätt så trötta...Många, många kramar till er båda, var rädda om er!
Kram Christina o Fred´rik
Hi darling, thank you for your latest blog - just the information we wanted. Interesting that you have become almost vegetarian - I must say I like meat less and less. The scenery sounds fantastic - you are so far south. Jake and Luke were amused by your 'sin' - they fully appreciate your visit to the big 'M'. We are both well and experiencing some springlike weather - the daffodils and primroses are blooming at long last. Take care of yourselves. Our love to you.Nana and Grandpa.
