Garry McGivern Travelsonabike2 is cycle touring in India on Wednesday, 19th-October-2016. Still in Dhule. I was thinking last night I should really leave my convalescent home in the next day or two as I need to get moving if I’m ever going to get to Kathmandu!
I feel fine in myself but still get a bit short of breath whenever I do anything, but then maybe that’ll take a long time to go, more time than I’ve got to wait here, so maybe I’ll just have to adapt to it and get on with it.
Being brought out surprise food like this doesn’t help me leave! Peppers, paneer, tomatoes and onions
But on the other hand, I don’t want to start travelling again and then one or two days down the line to become ill again!
Sewing services
So I’ve decided to stay for one more day. Then, at least, I will have finished all my antibiotics! And if I’m not fit enough to cycle, I’ll just take it easy and make my way to Delhi and get a flight home!
Smiley market traders
Spent this morning down the market making some more boring videos; click to view them on YouTube; it keeps me occupied and out of trouble!
More happy faces in the market
And to fill my time this afternoon I went for a haircut and also had another shave.
The barber at work
I’m looking forward to moving tomorrow although I am a little apprehensive about my chest getting bad again!
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Garry McGivern’s YouTube video “Man Sharpening A Knife Indian Style” was posted on his YouTube channel on the 19th of October 2016. Man on a bike sharpening knives in Dhule market this morning, maybe I should adapt my bike!
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Travelsonabike2 YouTube Video: Sharpening A Knife Indian Style
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Garry McGivern’s YouTube video “Dhule Market” was posted on his YouTube channel on the 19th-October-2016. A walk around Dhule market, a couple of videos taken in the market this morning; watch out for those cows!
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Travelsonabike2 YouTube Video: Dhule Market Video
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Travelsonabike2 YouTube Video: Dhule Fruit and Veg Market
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Garry McGivern Travelsonabike2 is cycle touring in India on Tuesday, 18th-October-2016. In Dhule. The doctor was pleased with my progress and said that I should be okay to move on in a few days. And he’s given me enough tablets to take whilst I’m in India. As if I didn’t have enough tablets to carry as it is!
One thing I’d forgotten to mention about when you go and see the doctor is you wait in a waiting room, which is normal. You are then called into the doctor’s room where you take another seat and sit in the same room along with him and the patient in front of you. You then get to hear about all their ailments. When they’ve finished they go, and he starts his consultation with you whilst somebody else enters the room and waits. Listen to your problems! I hope it’s not like that in the gynaecology department!
Out For The Evening
After the hospital, I got invited out to a party with Deepam’s family. The party was on the other side of town so we went in the car.
The party venue
I think that we may have been the last to arrive as everybody was already eating when we got there.
It was being held on what I could only describe as a small sports field. It just had that feel about it. But apparently, it was somebody’s garden and they just rented it out for parties.
There were two big tables, one with the women on and one with the men on. Kalpana went and obviously sat with the women whilst Pradeep, Deepam and myself went to sit at the men’s table. It wasn’t formal seating everyone was just sitting in a random manner around the table.
The food with servers
After being introduced to everybody, I was given some food. The dish was a dry dish, a mixture of puffed rice mixed with chutneys and Bombay mix. It was very tasty! On the table, there was also some tomato soup in cups. Some deep-fried bits made from gram flour and some chillies fried in batter, which I must admit I didn’t realise what they were until I’d bitten into one!
Thinking that this was the food, I had another bowl of the puffed rice. It wasn’t until I’d nearly finished that I got told that this was only the starter and the main course was inside!
Inside the party venue
There’s More?
Inside was like the sports hall (I think I thought that because I’d already made my mind up about the way the outside looked) the food was all laid out on a long table. On it, there was rice, salad, dal, masala, vegetable kofta in a sauce, breads and a sweet dessert that you poured milk over. It was all extremely tasty and very enjoyable.
After the food, we once again returned to the tables outside where the normal party banter started, and I kept hearing the odd reference to myself. After we’d sat around talking for a while, somebody said that we were all going for an ice cream; a bit random, I thought (it was about 11 o’clock by now), but hey, why not! Thinking it was just outside and we’d walk, I was a bit surprised when we all got into the cars and drove to this ice cream parlour about a mile away.
After enjoying our ice creams, it was time to go home. What another truly wonderful experience! I am so grateful to Pradeep, Deepam and Kalpana for inviting me along.
Went to the market in Dhule this morning, which runs along the old main road running through the town. There are fruit stalls, veg stalls and all manner of different stalls in fact I think that you could possibly buy almost anything you wanted! What a thoroughly hectic and manic place! I loved it!
The bustling market
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