This morning I met Marion for breakfast. I have been longing for bacon and eggs for a couple of weeks now, but when the crunch came I found myself ordering muesli, fruit and yoghurt!!!
Then, (now we are really delving in to the realms of totally bizarrity) we decided to hire bikes! Real pedal ones. And cycle a few km out of town to visit some hot springs!
The country side around here is so lovely though, and we had all day, and made Marion promise that we had to cycle really slowly as it's very hilly and up and downy everywhere.
So off we went and got our bikes... not proper mountain bikes, but they had gears, and we could bungy our rucksacks to the rack on the back. And began our trip.
And it wasn’t as bad as I had thought -it was a little overcast when we set off at midday, so it wasn’t too horrifically hot and the bikes were much easier to cycle than my old one back home, and though occasionally had to get off and push on the really steep hills it was great fun!
We went past a beautiful elephant, found the hot springs, and sat in them for about 2 ½ hours
until the sun came out, we had completely pruned, my face had burnt from reflection off the water, despite me sitting in the shade, but on a happier note, the soaking appear to have helped the skankles. Yes...my skankles were no longer scabby, they just looked a bit raw. Hurrah!!!
We sat and had a lovely drink by the river, just watching it go by and marvelling at the silence...
There were no traffic noises, just the river, birds and insects. It's always so shocking when you realise you rarely hear that kind of quiet.
and then we cycled the long way back in glorious evening sunshine taking in the gorgeous views! Absolutely stunning.
Looking a little bit sweaty here!
Ok, now more weird stuff.
1) I had a dinner which I couldn’t finish! I ate until I was full didn’t eat any more. This never happens.
2) Then I was offered a spliff which I turned down!
Who am I? What is going on? Has someone taken over half my brain?
Was suddenly absolutely exhausted and went home to bed and blogging at 8... And am meeting Marion tomorrow for more cycling!
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