Re: BREAKDOWNS

Posted by Colin Davidson on Nov 06, 2011; 1:12am
URL: http://sundownersadventures.385.s1.nabble.com/BREAKDOWNS-tp4544086p4967783.html

Johnno,
The snake charmer, the game of cricket and the shikara races.

The snake charmer was usually entertaining, the game of cricket that day out the back of the hotel was a laugh, from memory it was the Aussie's against the Indian's. It was like a full on Test match, the Indian side comprised of the hotel staff and the Aussie's were from both tours. Those hotel whalla's were so serious, if you over stepped over the crease when bowling, they would call no ball. They were so passionate about the game.

The shikara races were good fun, not only was there races, but at times running battles in the middle of the lake. I can recall one boat load of punters neck deep in water and the shikara upside down.

On another occassion, Alan Maher arrived from Jammu and as they were loading the luggage onto the tranport shikara, we, who were on the other side of the lake sitting comfortably on our house boats, let fly with a barrage of sky rockets.

Fireworks played a part in many a tale