01-03-2024
This week we're writing very much, but it won't stay this way our entire stay. It would leave too little time to do other things! Although it's fun to make this website, we'll have to start working from next week on. Besides, so far everything was new for us, so everything is an adventure. In a while, we will more or less get used to the way things are here in India.
Four days after our departure from the Netherlands, quite a bit of laundry had already piled up. Time to find a laundromat. This turned out more difficult than we thought. Google maps showed us some, but to find them is anothter thing altogether. The first one was untraceble for us. The second one appeared to be permanently closed. The third one was no laundromat but a laundry service (little did we know they all are) which would take five days. The fourth was closed this day. We returned to the hotel sweaty and desillusioned. Maybe we should used the hotel's laundry service. But it turned out our clothes would be cleaned and returned to us after check-out.
After cooling off in the A/C for an hour, Simon decided to look on the internet one more time. Using different wording, he got new hits. The closest laundry service was 150 metres away. So off we went. Here, they could have our clothes ready the day after tomorrow. So we wouldn't have to go through trouble with the hotel. We wouldn't have to wait too long for our clean clothes. And it was reasonably close to St. Albert's College. They wrote down every article of clothing we handed over meticulously. We were giver the receipt, so we could reclaim our poessessions two days later. Quite relieved, we went for lunch at the next door restaurant.
We took the long way back to the hotel, and bought some fruit on the way. Back in our room, we updated this website. Then we got a message from Geo: Would we like to go to the beach? He'd pick us up at five.
We went to a beach that had not yet been discovered by big crowds of tourists. The pinetrees grow there up to the sea. On the way to the beach, I noticed for the first time many stray dogs walking around. We saw cranes, and cows taking a cooling bath in the pond. We were having a drink, waiting for the sunset, when a group of girls of all differente ages, but in identical dress, walked by. They were followed by a group of, presumably, their mothers. It turned out to be a school for traditional dance, coming to the beach for a photoshoot to promote their first performance, which they would be giving shortly. Fourteen girls and one boy, all heavily made up, with flowers in their hair. Extremely beautiful, and taking their performance very seriously.
We followed them to the water's edge and looked on. No-one objected to us taking pictures also. On the contrary. They showed us that the best place to take pictures was right next to the photographer. At a certain point, we were even asked to be in the photo's.
Unfortunately, we didn't see the sunset, because some clouds formed on the horizon. But seeing a photoshoot like this is far more rare to witness, and just as wonderful.
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