Three weeks in India -- Day Three, Part Two
I slept more than four hours today so far. Woke up and felt a bit more rested, and slightly less foggy, yet still with a headache and little energy. But I missed lunch, served through 3:00, so I've been snacking on the fruit provided in each room by the hotel -- a small banana and an orange. Both are high in vitamin C, so I'll be cured shortly. I received a call from our local office, offering to arrange medical care if need be. I don't have a fever though and I politely declined (see -- the politeness thing is working on me already). It's good to know I can fall back on that if I had to.
I'll eat dinner in the hotel tonight -- I felt so rotten last night I took dinner in the room, a Tenderloin Burger. A friend who's been to India warned me that you may well find menu items that sound familiar but which won't taste quite the same, and he has a point. But it was fine nonetheless.
Without much more to say, I'll share two more pictures -- one of the lake overlooked by the hotel "coffee shop" taken a few days ago. Well, if what they have here is a coffee shop I can't imagine what a full restaurant would look like. It's really quite nice.
Next is a view of the fruit plate in the room, accompanied by a properly sized bottle of Kingfisher beer, as fine a product of India as any, if you don't count say, the spices and precious gems. This was taken a few days ago -- today the plate contained an orange, banana and apple.
So here I am, almost 9,000 miles from home, reduced to posting poorly composed still lifes. Don't fret -- it really hasn't been that bad (the trip, not my photography).