Thekaddy adventures

8.2.19

John went off for a run and I had lovely hot water once our host Sibi came and switched something on the roof.

There was an awful lot of animal noise that sounded like it was right outside the door, in my head a herd of wild boar were on the corridor eating a street dog alive. I was too scared to go out and look. From the balcony I couldn’t hear it or see anything.

I made coffee and sat on the balcony and watched monkeys playing in the trees and thankfully the awful noise had stopped.

Saw a couple who were just leaving when John came back, it was monkeys that had been fighting over some popcorn people in the room further along had put outside their door. Good thing none of the rest of us were waiting to go out!

John’s phone charged overnight. No logic to it. I’m now able to add the selfies the kids took with it on the boat yesterday.

We set off to Barbque firstly to see if we could book a cooking class. Great, booked in for 5.30pm today.

We stopped for lunch at The Leaf. Chicken biriyani for John (surprise surprise) and I ordered pineapple and cheese toast.

2 triangles had pineapple in, 2 had cheese. It made me think of the tuna ‘n’ sweetcorn Dinner Ladies sketch with Victoria Wood. I even googled it and watched it again.

So anyway it was cheese and pineapple not cheese ‘n’ pineapple but was very tasty. We both had curd and honey afterwards, curd is thick tasty yogurt.

From there we continued walking to the Green Park Spice Garden, John said I didn’t need maps on as he saw it this morning while out running.

I was surprised how long it was taking and eventually we reached Green Spice Garden, probably the same experience but Green Park has great reviews. Turned back and walked 3km to the right place.

The tour was very interesting, some online reviews mentioned animals and an aquarium, one large fish and a pool with tiny ones. The animals were 3 goats, a couple of rabbits, some guinea pigs, 3 cows and a dog that John untangled from it’s short chain and another dog on a chain. The first one was so excited to have some interaction. John pointed out to the guy that they need some water.

Aside from this it was worth visiting.

We then walked up to see the Rose Garden which was nearby but mainly for children so went off to find pineapple juice instead as we were a bit early for cooking class.

We found a little place advertising juice but he didn’t have pineapple so we said goodbye. But then he came after us and said he could do it.

He sliced the pineapple and was just about to put it in the blender when the power went off, so we said no problem we will just eat it as it is. He cut it into little chunks for us and gave us 2 forks, a sprinkle of lime juice and napkins. It was a huge plateful. Followed by a 2nd one!

He asked for just 40p for this, so we gave him extra.

We were first to arrive at cooking school. The teacher was just putting marinated chicken on a huge barbecue. It smelled amazing.

There were 9 of us, a mix of Brits, 2 Australians and 2 Americans. A really lovely group.

Our first task was chopping okra, green beans, shallots and potatos, all into tiny slices.

We then watched and took turns stirring, grating coconut, frying poppadoms and making parotta bread.

We had samples of everything along the way.

Then we all sat together and feasted. It was all delicious.

I’ve often looked at okra in the market and assumed I wouldn’t like it as I am a real baby when it comes to veg, but I’m definitely going to buy some when we get back.

Absolutely fabulous evening, would thoroughly recommend to anyone in the area.

Our American friends gave us a lift back in their car. They have hired a car with driver for their entire trip.

She was envious of us doing it all independently on public transport, I was envious of her not having the stress of having no idea what is going on at the bus and train stations!

Just as we got back our host family were just setting off for a family function. No sooner had we got in our room when their 2 little daughters presented us with…. a pineapple. The hugest one we have ever seen.

We may well die of pineapple overdose. What a way to go 🙂