Saturday Sauntering
in the old city
It’s taken a week for me to get round to writing this …. Let’s
just say I have been indisposed! I am
calling it the Udaipur Urge … the local variant of Delhi Belly… I’ll leave you
to work out where the urge has to take you!!
Anyway no such urges for a couple of days so I am feeling
its now all clear… hopefully!
Last weekend I walked into the old city again – it has been
several months since I took that route and I was delighted to find that I still
knew the way! Passing familiar landmarks
that now feel like friends, including one of my favourite views of the
city.
I first stopped off at a coffee house I never got round to
trying last time – a bit too touristy in many ways but the frappe was
excellent. I enjoyed savouring it and
the lake view as I read. Simple
pleasures!
I had a job to do though – collect my new clothes from the
tailor – so the next challenge was to find it!
I still feel the old city is a bit like a labyrinth especially as my
sense of direction is poor (OK non-existent!).
Hurrah! I found it ok and
collected my new outfits.
The other challenge I had set myself was to find The Courtyard
– a restaurant we visited a couple of times when I was here before …. But I had
never approached it from this direction… too difficult?? More by luck than judgement
I found it first time! And it seems that
the restaurant part is now named “The whistling Teal”. Highly appropriate for a
former employee of RSPB!
Although I don’t think the illustrations are teal at all …
but never mind! The town was extremely chaotic
today (even more than usual) – apparently on the day after Holi, the police
have the day off (as they have worked over the Holi holiday) … the roads were
completely rammed with vehicles going wherever and in every direction… without
the usual restrictions and barriers!
I headed home with a sense of achievement.
