Dear diary, ode to the dosa.

I'm in love. Not in India, but with India. We've spent a day on the coutryside again today after we arrived this morning @ 4 am. I really liked to see all the big cities untill now, but the countryside is just magic. I can already see myself living in one of the colourfull little houses with the laundry on the roof and busy with making some scentfull spicy dinner.
With dosa's ofcourse.
Dosa's are, often huge, pancakes made of fermented rice and gram flour. on one side they are crispy, the other side stays white and a bit stickyt. In between (they fold it once or twice) there are often spiced potatoes with onions. Like this it is called ' masala dosa'. It is served on a big Iron plate, or on a banana leaf, wrapped in newspaper. They come with two kinds of dipsauce. One creamy kind made of peanuts and one spicy kind made of transparent stuff. I love them and everybody's laughing when i want a dosa again. I'm already renamed miss Dosa by Anil ;)!

For the rest things are going pretty good. My health is better now and except for a cold with a runny nose (despite the hot weather here in Mutyalapadu) i have nothing to complain about.

John and Loek decided quite some time before i write this that they wanted to have a shave at an Indian barber. Just for the nice experience. But untill now that didn't happen and since they are too lazy and don't want to do it themselfs the beards are becoming bigger and bigger. It won't be long 'till they will also need a 'beardnet' when travelling (like the older Indian men have sometimes). I don't think its gonna get that far though. Now i'm typing this part of my diary on the blog, they already had a shave and it was really nice to see how that goes. Pictures will be there later because i don't have a usb-port here. I'm already happy when the computer doesn't fall apart while i'm typing i guess.

The last day in Hyderabad was nice. we visited a museum, climbed the Char Minar and went bangle-shopping. also i bought some traditional lunch boxes (they're awesome!). Not very handy that i have to carry them around all the time, but they are just too hip!.
For the first time since i'm here i got sunburnt. the sun is more sharp in the south and its very dry. But it was not as bad as it looked and its all fine now.

After hyderabad we went on to Kadapa, Anil's home town. There we met his family and some friends and i got my hair flowered (with jasmin flowers, they smell goooood) and i have another Henna-tattoo. This one lasts longer and is made by female friends of Anil. Its a beautifull one and i hope to still have it when arriving back in the Netherlands again to show everyone ;).

At this moment we are in Ernakulam. we go to Munnar tonight. i don't have much time so there's much more to come :)

Love from sunny Kerala,
Zoe