An even wetter Dharamsala

Friday night beers & take-away after a hard week's yoga

So...after nearly getting stuck in Manali forever we finally managed to escape to beautiful, but very, VERY wet Dharamsala. We got there around 3 weeks ago (today 31st Aug) and typically spent a bit longer there than originally intended. Whilst there we did a 5 day yoga course which was very good, although the 7 a.m. starts weren't so great - it was like being back at work ! We also did a Tibetan cookery course and learnt how to make momos, mmmmmm. The good thing was that we had a nice appartment in Dharamsala which meant we could put our newly learnt skills to practice. It also meant we could make a nice cup of tea in the mornings. The appartment was nice, a real bargain at about 3 squid a night, but the slight downfall was that it was down 304 (yes we counted them) steps, it was like step aerobics every day !
One evening we were fortunate enough to be invited to a Tibetan family's (Amdo & family) house for dinner which was good fun. We had a few beers with him but we don't think he was over impressed with the bottle of Royal Stag (Indian Whisky) we took with us, apparently he only likes the real stuff.
We did a bit of walking in between the torrential downpours to Bhagshu, Dharamkot and the much hyped but vastly overated Dal Lake. One day we really did get soaked. When we got back to the hotel everything was drenched and this was added to by the fact that half a litre of water had leaked inside my (Jon) bag !!
One thing about Dharamsala was all the birds of prey continually soaring through the sky, this was a bit off putting during the yoga course when we were supposed to be listening to and watching the teacher not gazing out of the window. We also saw lot of mongooses (or should that be mongeese ?) and far, far too many mosquitoes.

An even wetter Dharamsala

Dharmsala, India