RE: Back to Lahore

Posted by Vicar on Apr 04, 2013; 9:45pm
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A strange cure.

Learning of your health issues reminded me of the time Kit and I did a express trip out to Kathmandu. We had picked up a Pakistan man who had hitched a ride with us from Afghanistan. We only had a couple of other passengers so it was long drives. As a place to stay overnight we stayed with Mansoor at his hotel in Peshawar. Mansoor invited Kit and I to have lunch in his restaurant and on selection was a variety of curries. Kit picked out 5 of the hottest curries, which I think he intended would be baptism by fire for me, as a new recruit. As the various spices went about burning the lining from my mouth and stomach he then ordered us a large lassie drink.

It was a long lunch and dinner was not required. Laden with curries and lassie sitting and stirring within, I went to bed.

Early hours of the morning there was to be an explosion from one or two ends. Fortunately for me the hand basin was located close to the toilet. The dual explosions just about caused and internal implosion. After many a return visit, eventually the morning came around and we had to get cracking on the road again. Feeling miserable the Paki hitch hiker suggested a weird combination of salt and 7 Up. Very reluctantly I followed his instructions not knowing if it would heal me or kill me. Dare I say it did not kill me. Surprisingly enough within a couple of hours I was feeling much better.

By the way the hitch hiker got out along the way and many kilometres later we realized he had stolen one of the passengers cameras. Perhaps that was his medical fee.