First thing this morning, under bright sunshine, we all went for a nice long walk before cotming home to a delicious crepe breakfast complete with jaggery syrup, banana lemon jam and grape jam. We will not be loosing any weight on this trip. By the time we got ready to leave, the sun had disappeared for the first time during our holiday. We still got in the car and were driven into town to the start of Coaker's Walk. It was a relatively short walk with some beautiful vistas whenever the fog lifted. The path was an interlock brick pavement lined with flowering shrubs. There were all kinds of merchants along the way, peddling their wares. Of course, it started to rain, much to our amazement since this is not the monsoon season. It was really just a mist and I'm sure the garden at Vasu and Bala was very happy for the drink
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Our driver John, pointed out an old church and we all opted to visit it. It was called Our Lady of LaSalettte and was built about 200 years ago. It was one of only two churches owned by that order, the other one being in France. After that, Bernie was brave enough to eat Bheil Puri from a road vendor, served in a newspaper cone, without the puri. He has not been sick yet an. is still alive and kicking. It continued raining so after doing some business in town and picking up some coriander chutney sandwiches and some muffins at the Daily Bread bakery, we headed back home where we were warmly greeted by Bala and Vasu. They very kindly made us some masala tea.
Dinner on our gourmet trek took us firmly back to North America with a delicious salad with avocados from their own tree and a variety of home made pizza made with their home made cheese, home made sausages and fresh garden tomatoes. The whole thing is just too much. Dessert was a gigantic home made brownie topped with vanilla ice cream. How dare they, the ice cream was not home made! We were having such a good time with our hosts that we decided to end the evening with a bottle of cider ice wine we had purchased has a gift for someone else whom we did not get to meet.
On that note, we bid you all good night.
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Our driver John, pointed out an old church and we all opted to visit it. It was called Our Lady of LaSalettte and was built about 200 years ago. It was one of only two churches owned by that order, the other one being in France. After that, Bernie was brave enough to eat Bheil Puri from a road vendor, served in a newspaper cone, without the puri. He has not been sick yet an. is still alive and kicking. It continued raining so after doing some business in town and picking up some coriander chutney sandwiches and some muffins at the Daily Bread bakery, we headed back home where we were warmly greeted by Bala and Vasu. They very kindly made us some masala tea.
Dinner on our gourmet trek took us firmly back to North America with a delicious salad with avocados from their own tree and a variety of home made pizza made with their home made cheese, home made sausages and fresh garden tomatoes. The whole thing is just too much. Dessert was a gigantic home made brownie topped with vanilla ice cream. How dare they, the ice cream was not home made! We were having such a good time with our hosts that we decided to end the evening with a bottle of cider ice wine we had purchased has a gift for someone else whom we did not get to meet.
On that note, we bid you all good night.
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