Irish Departure

On the third try, Jamie, Hugh and Carol managed to leave towards Manali for the harvest season. Surpringsingly, later I knew Allister also went there, though he'll be properly introduced later on.

So there I was again, left alone with a bunch of new people to get acquainted with. I'll start with Clare, a sweet kiwi girl I had met on the conversation classes, which I'll also talk about later. It was hard to understand her, and Frank and I used to make fun about it, as he is German and had as much difficulty on that subject as I did. However, she took it very well, and we had much fun together.

Matt and Gillian, brother and sister, are a couple of very nice brits traveling together for the first time, almost by chance. It was also very difficult to get everything Matt said, so I used to laugh or nod to what he said though I had no clue what it was he was talking about. As he said, he had a crap English, and I must agree on that. However we understood each other pretty well and hang around together along with Clare pretty often.

Eleanor turned out to be a very useful brit, as she got me the contact of ecotibet.org, an NGO from Tibet which I was supposed to meet, but at the end... "Welcome to India". At the end I send them an email, but have had no response whatsoever.

Eddie stayed at my hotel. He used to hang out with Nico and an Argentine couple until all 3 got into a meditation retreat for 5 days. That is, staying in confine without a word, a smile, a look, a smoke, or any kind of thoughts, as you're supposed to be meditating. So, complete silence. Going back to Eddie, I must say he is a very cool guy, with very good hash!

Bikers Ady and Phill were to hell of characters. Totally opposite to each other, Phill was a very peaceful guy with a sunburned funny face, always smiling, whereas Ady used to act as a total prick, though I must admit it was funny most of the times. However, I got to meet in the morning when he wasn't too stoned yet, and I must say he did seem like a nice guy. So I presume he was just acting and making fun about everything, though sometimes it could be seen as disgusting. But Ady has owns post for himself later on.

Charlotte, another London girl, who seemed to know everyone. You couldn't walk with her without constantly stopping to chat with this monk or this Indian fellow. She reminded me of someone, for some reason...

Other people were around as well, but I shall finish this intro with Charlotte (another one) and Dan. Charlotte, I had met her as well at the conversation classes, though she did not remember about that hours later. So we got to know each other, as it could not be in any other way, at Carpe Diem. I had hardly seen Dan as he got sick and spent most of his time in his room and used to go to bed very early, but they play an important on my traveling role later on.

So I managed to keep with good company after all, and once again I thank Debbie letting me out of her company.