Saturday, January 7, 2017

It's a bloody big fort, I tell ya!

We got up early because we had a big day planned...but first we went for breakfast on a rooftop restaurant overlooking Udaipur...
...off to the left is some sort of palace...the place is full of em...
After a nice breakfast, we went fort hunting, and found one...there's nothing like a big fort to get you going in the morning...good thing it wasn't raining or it would have been a great big wet fort, and nobody likes those.  Anyway, this great big fort (can't stop thinking about the wet fort can you?) has the second longest wall on the planet...some Chinese amusement park has the other one!  It looks like this...
...This big fort was impressive...
 

These people are very clever...firstly, they put the Starbucks way out in the middle of nowhere...
...Even the Starbucks monkey's took their break away from that place...
Secondly, they didn't let McDonalds go crazy with colours...that would have ruined it I think...
You may not be able to see it, but that's a statue of the Hamburglar!  Anyway, we climbed all the way to the top...I was going to take my private helicopter, but Cassandra thought it would cause too much of a stir...she likes the little people, and has as many shoes as Imelda!
 I don't know who the King or whatever was, but he must have had a big butt...this is his wartime bathroom...the toilet is gone, but look at the size of the shitter hole in the floor on the right...it's enormous (and it still smelled damp in there after 1100 years)...
...ok, maybe you can't see it cuz of the HUGE turd stains, but it's there, take my word for it.  Then we went to a temple called...well, who cares what it's called, I can't spell it anyway.  Here's the story...some rich guy was downtown one day and went into Pillars R Us...they had a sale on, and he went crazy...bought everything they had...I've done that in liquor stores!  Anyway, when he came to his senses, he thought "Shit...what am I gunna do with all these pillars?"  He had an architect friend who said "I can get rid of all that crap for ya...we'll build a crazy temple and fill it with these goofy things!"  The rich guy thought this was great...he wasn't too imaginative...so they built this place...
I know, it doesn't look like much on the outside, but it's sure sez Pillars R Us on the inside!
...and I found out that if you lay on your back, and look straight up in the air...if you are in the right spot, you can see this...I have no idea what this is, but I needed to lay down for a bit...
Now I don't know how they got a statue of TLD in here, and further, I don't know how I missed it...but Cassandra saw it immediately and took this photo...pretty accurate representation, I think!
That's when things got a little weird.  This guy came up to me with 3 young girls...asked if I was traveling alone, and one young girl gave me a rose.  Hmmm, I thought...maybe they worked at the McDonalds and were on a break.  The guy asked if I thought they were pretty...said they were VERY flexible...oh, I said, are they part of the McDonalds gymnastic team?  He seemed confused, the girls seemed confused...the girl took her rose back and stomped off...but not before I got a photo...
I changed her hair colour because Cassandra thought maybe they were prostitutes...and if we were wrong, I didn't want her mother to see her!  I still think it was a gymnastic team...or something.  Well, that was it for the temple, but there was some old guys hanging around, so I got some photos of them...you know how I like those old men...hey, that doesn't sound right...



 
Time for bed...................do you think it was a gymnastic team?









Thursday, January 5, 2017

Too many people...and stuff?

Udaipur is full of really interesting people...I probably take too many photos of these people, especially the old men...but the old men are soooo cool.  They have a world of work on their faces...women rarely grizzle!  Here's some more from today...then I'll show you some other stuff...
First we have the banjo player from the Bollywood remake of Deliverance...
...then we have grumpy man #1 and #2, and scary man #.3762965...
 
..and scary man #1...
...then it's startled man #1,754,379, laughing man #67, and chilly man #3.5...
 
 
...and finally, I want you to pay me man #-2 1/3...
So now I can get on to other stuff...like a photo of a desolate street here in Udaipur...
...and if you go down to the lake at sunset, you'll see the local washer women enjoying martini's after work at the beach!
This is what they are looking at...
 
If you look carefully, you can see the pigeons shitting all over everything...they even hit me a couple times today.......................HEY..........THAT'S NOT FUNNY!



Wednesday, January 4, 2017

I luuuuuuuv India!

Udaipur...ya, I know it sounds bad, but it's a great place!  We got in yesterday afternoon, after flying out of Bombay...we found out the locals still call it Bombay, the rest of the world calls it Mumbai.  The Bombay airport is pretty cool...they don't let mere mortals take photos in there for security reasons, but TLD is a celebrity, dontcha know!
 
 Very impressive building...not so impressive was our dinner in Mumbai at Mamagoto...Mama to go should have gone.  Actually, the first 2 courses were good, then the waiter changed into his Depends and shit his pants.  Prawns in tasteless crap over shitty rice...sound appealing?  Well, two out of three ain't bad, how 'bout dessert.  Sponge cake with home made caramel sauce, and fried banana in same caramel sauce.  10 minutes into the wait a busboy came racing over in very excited India/English saying "hawrrfszd[hoawvnlkzxl,qwr[snxk;jas[0q3[u"!  Well, ok...whatever, don't have an f'n heart attack.  Here comes the dessert sans caramel sauce...sorry, we ran out.  WTF, the bill says full pop!
 Anyway, we got into Udaipur around 4, and in the AirBnB by 5...wow, really great place!  Roomy, we have our own little patio overlooking the city...
 The owners are wonderful, and recommended a place for dinner with a view of the lake...
That's a view of a swanky hotel across the lake from our rooftop diningroom!  Ha, dontcha wish you were us?!!!!!!  Anyway, we got up this morning and had tea on our patio...I looked across the lane to see this old lady with her head caught in the railing...
...she looked kinda pissed, so I didn't think I should bother her any further.  We decided to go for a little walk, and right outside our gate was this beautiful lady...
...and we went down to the lake and saw a bunch of this stuff...
 
 
 
 
 ...and this beautiful leaf sewer...no, not a sewer...she sews leaves into cups bozo!
This guy wanted money...so I offered 20 rupees...he said 50...you know where this is goin' dontcha!
I told him for 50 I wanted him screwing a goat...well THAT was a mistake!  He ran off to get the goat and we escaped!  Then we met this guy...90 years old...
...and another great looking lady...
What a great place...Cassandra is off at a yoga berra symposium in our courtyard...maybe I should have a cocktail...now there is a GREAT idea!