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Euan's Very Originally Titled Travel Log | Log entries 1 - 10 of 14 | Page:
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Nov 13, 2004 09:00 PM New Zealand
Well yet again I´m keeping well on top of this little tale.
After a bit of faffing around we eventually bought a nice Nissan Bluebird Auto for about 400 quid. Not too shoddy considering it had only done about 80 000 miles and it was a 88 too. We left Christchurch and headed to Greymouth however on the way we managed to get a flat, and of course it was the middle of nowhere. Luckily for us there was a spare as we hadn´t checked it when we bought it, and aftre driving most of the way on a space saver we arrived. Too be honest there isn´t too much in Greymouth so after getting the tire changed we headed to the Franz Josef Glacier. Found a nice hostel and chilled in the free spa before heading out for some partying. Needless to say the following day was a bit more relaxed. I also forced myself out early enough to do a 1/2 day Glacier walk where we got to walk through the glacier and examine it.
After that we headed on down to Wanaka where we arrived kinda late according to the whole town (22:00) so we ended up having to just have some chips for dinner before heading on to bed. It had been a long drive.
The next day we had a good look around and then headed on without doing any of the normal stuff there (i.e. jumping out of planes etc.) as we simply didn´t have the cash :-( On to Milford Sounds was the cry.
If you want to see the route have a look at the cracking map here http://www.backpack-newzealand.com/mapofsouthisland.html
Milford Sounds where there was some fantastic scenery on the way. When we got there we were lucky enough to be the only people to go out and see the underwater obsrevatory whichg was nice as we got to see some fairly unique underwater life, due to the fjords composition. We about faced and drove back to civilisation for the night. (Unfortunately forgotten the name, but will no doubt remember it later).
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Oct 12, 2004 06:00 PM Australia Whistle Stop and now New Zealand
Hi again, slightly better on the old updating. Well after seeing the Dutch lassies on to their flight M and me headed up to our gate to find that our flight was delayed by 30 mins. So off we headed to investigate the shops and we returned to find tht the flight was going to be delayed until the following day. British Airways were fantastic and set up all of the passengers in a really nice hotel in Singapore were we were given dinner and also told that the would leave us a message when they knew what was going on with the flight. So next morning we find a wee note to say that they were charteing a plane to take us there, but unfortunately it would not be until 11 o'clock at night (a full 27 hours late). However they did arrange for all our dinners, etc and also a complimentary tour of Singapore if we wanted to go. So instead M and me wandered Sinagpore for a while enjoing te extra day.
We arrived in Sydney without too much hassle and stayed at the wakeup Hostel for a few nights before switching to the Cnetral YHA which alos had a pool. While here we ended up not doing too much sightseeingas we were knackered from all the travelling around and it ws also nice just to chill out with a kitchen that we could cook in as we pleased.
While there though we did meet up with our friend Demelza whos currently working at the Syndey Opera house as a stage manager. After dinner in the Green Room, a tour around the back stage area of the theatre, seeing the show and finally some free drinks courtesy of a sponsor night we were told we could crash, we kinda figured that we had definitely fallen on our feet, and were more than happy to be D a few drinks in appreciation of a caracking eveing. Thanks again sweetie!!
Next day and we were off to New Zealand with an early start. We arrived without too much hassles, with the only problem being that we couldn't see the film (Dodgeball) and since everyone on the plane seemed to be watching it and laughing at the same time, it looks as though we should make an effort to see it.
Were now staying at the Foley Towers Hostel in Christchurch, were were going to spend the next few days wandering around and seeing what its got to offer as well as picking up a car so we can tour around as we please. Will keep you all posted.
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Oct 04, 2004 06:00 PM More Often? Well not quite
Well the plan was to update more often, haven't really done that since its roughly 3 months since my last update.
Well koh Tao is a bit of a trap as far as I can say. The original plan was to just do the Open water and be done with it. Well I'm know a Divemaster and have also specialised in DAN O2 provision for diving realted injuries, Deep Diving and Enriched Air. So at least the 3 montsh have paid off as its been aboslutely fantastic, and although as I started I wasn't really that convinced after I started to dive a bit more regularly I found out how exciting and fun it is. Needless to say, 3 months some cash, a lot of early mornings and meeting some really nice people have paid off. Will definitely be back in shot and will certainly be diving elsewhere as well.
After I left Koh Tao, I headed to Koh Tao to see if it was as I remembered it the last time I was therem with two dutch lassies (Caroline and Caroline) I'd met at Koh Tao. On getting there I realised that it was definitley low season with hardly in people about at all. After about 2 days we though that it was enough and headed down to the Taman Negara in Malaysia which is a rainforest that is about 130 million years old. Not bad! We did a few touristy things involving Cave exploring and a few walks etc which were good fun, only down side ws that on one of the days a Malaysian guy who couldn't swim was doing river running in a rubber ring and drowned as he was swept away by the strong river. Needless to say that its hoped there going to ban it after that.
After Taman Negara we headed down to Singapore and stayed that the cracking Inn Crowd hostel. The two ductch lassies also stayed there so we spent a few days exploring Singapore before Maranda joined us there 2 days ago. Since we are all flying off to Australia today we've agreed to head up to the airport together for a last beer. Should be fun.
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Jul 07, 2004 06:00 PM The last wee while
Well sorry for the delay in updating this but have been pretty busy of late and this little monlog had taken a back seat. So what i'll do is write up a quick summary of where we are now and how we got there.
Right so to continue from where I was. After arriving in Lhasa we ended up getting fairly drunk on Rice wine with another couple called Matt and Sophie that we'd been speaking with over the trip up. We ended up visiting the Potala Palace and it was quite haunting going in to the same room where the current Dali Lama met the Chinese military before all the troubles started. Unfortunately you weren't allowed to take pictures inside so that will have to remain in our heads. After about a week in Lhasa we flew out to Chengdu where our plan was to head on to the rest of China and eventually get to Hong Kong for September so we could fly on to Thailand. However when we arrived at the hostel in Chengdu we found that we had been duped as we had been told that although our original 3 month China visa would be suspended as we had to get a special China Tibet visa, once we had left Tibet our original Visa would be reissued for free. We checked with a few places and this was the story we got told at them all. This wasn't to be the case and we had 6 days to leave China or face a 40 quid a day charge. As you can imagine we weren't overly impressed with this and after trying various tacks with the local police we realised that we had no real choice apart from heading to Hong Kong and making a decison there on what to do. Fortunately being a british citizen we automatically get a 6 month visa for free once we got there and that would give us the chance to decide what we wanted to do.
After arriving in Hong Kong via a very nice 2 day train ride to Canton and a bus across the bridge to HK we arrived and found a nice hotel online as we needed some creature comforts.
We ended up staying for about a week in HK as we decided that we didn't really have the money to waste getting back in to China, so fortunately managed to move our flights forward at no charge and caught a plane to Bangkok Thaliand.
After spending a few days site seeing and in my opinion I think that the Grand Palace in Bangkok is much nicer to see than the Taj Mahal especially when you realise that its covered in 24 carat Gold. So one night as we were sitting on Koa San Road enjoying a cocktail from a street vendor we here a "I don't believe it" and turn round to find Matt and Sophie. They'd had enough travelling too and wanted to sit on a beach too.
A few days later we had booked ourselves to Koh Tao with an Open Water Diving Course as well.
So now we currently stand in Koh Tao thoroughly enjoying island life, getting a cracking tan and also snorkelling to our hearts content. We both completed our Open Water courses and are now thinking about doing somne of the others as we'd like to stay here a bit longer. So for the moment I'll shoot off but will try and update a wee bit more often.
Toodle pip,E
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May 31, 2004 06:00 PM Tibet Tour Last Leg
Uptoday and a shorter day planned journey wise. However we did get up early and went to the Panchen lama's Tashilhump Monastery in Xiagatse. I really enjoyed this as there was a huge 20 foot Bronze Buddha as well as all the locals that had come in to pray so we spent a bit of time just staying out of there way and watching them.
Katy our gudie tried initially to hurry su on but after a few of us told him that although he had seen it before and would again most of us wouldn't so we wanted to spend a bit more than 2 miniutes looking at it.
After a few hours though going round the temple it was enough for us and we trooped back on to our bus like the good sheep we are...
Off we went to Gyantse were we arrived sort of mid afternoon. Once we had got in to the dorms and got our stuff ready I wanted to go out and explore the city as its famed as being the least Chinafied one we would see on our tour. Some of the people from the tour had paid at the start for all entry costs to temples etc so were going to be going anyway, but a few of us being the usual cheap tourists had decided to decide as we went along. However M wasn't feeling too great with a spot of AMS so me and Marcus (a guy from Austria) headed out with a plan to try and get into either the fort or temple for free.
Interesting note, on the bus in I had done a spot of reading and found that the Brits had invaded as far as Gyantse during a campaign to claim some more land North from India. However when they got here they ended up blowing up a good chunk of the castle so much to the effect that there is a Anti British Museum here to commemorate it.
Well we headed out and wandered up the fort where we decided to walk up the hill and see if we could get in. After a good walk through the authentic Tibetean part of th town we clambered up the side of the mountain where we got some cracking photos of the surrounding area. We then walked across the shoulder so we could get a look at the Monastery as well. After rounding a point we bumped into a few of the pthers who had decided that they wanted to have a look at the temple without having to pay either. We walked arouns with them and after a few failed attempts to scale the walls we gave up and walked down a to a small temple at the far side of the city that as hidden behind the main temple. However at this point some of the group wanted to head back, however Marcus, David and I wanted to head down to the small temple.
So off we headed and clambered down the side of the mountain where we also found a small bridge festoomed with prayer flags and from there in to the temple courtyard. We went in and found it full of people praying so went around quietly and headed out. Outide there was a newly cut trunk of wood where the obvisuly plan to erect a new prayer tower at some point. As we took our leave from the temple we spotted a large group of people in the distance and thought we could head over there to see what the fun was.
As we got there we realised that it was a rather large picnic (we later learnt that it was national Children's day). As we walked around we got it in to our head to try out some of the local drink. After a small hello and some fairly expressive gesticulating on our part we got invited in to a group of gyuus who had been drinking for some time. After initial hello's were sotred we each got a drink, and then another, and another . After about 12 each and our failing attempts to stop them poring more in othe cups David realised that although in western drinking when you finish a drink and then get up to leave is the normal method, however it works differently in that if you finish your cup its right and proper to refill. Ahhhh so saying outr cheerios a lot more happily we bade our leave. Only to be stopped by another group of guys who wanted us to haev a drink with them. After 3 more groups of people we headed back to the hotel nicely lubricated.
Day 05 gyantse to Lhasa
On the road to Lhasa today and we stopped at a nice big lake but to be nonest although it looked really nice, me and M weren't too fussed any mroe as we just wanted to get to Lhasa so we could geta bath. We hadn't ahd a shower since we left kathmandu and were feeling a tad dirty. I seemed that we weren't the only people who thought like this as most people really weren't fussed about getting out and taking pciture. Apart from one notable expcetion a blinking huge glacier that was still there from the last ice age. Also dotted aound were small Yas that apparently you could ride, although it would have been nice the poor we beasties only came up to my hip so I didn't think it was fair to try.
Back on the road and s we drive in to Lhasa city there was a silence in the bus as we drove past large groups of Tibeteans sitting out on the pavements preparing for the nights sleep, and behind them big Chinese shops an drestaurants. To be honest a bit chilling.
So after a long bumpy ride we arrive at Tibets largest city.
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May 30, 2004 06:00 PM Tibet Tour Continued (30-31 May)
Day 2 - Nyalam to Lhatse
Up at 08:30 after a much needed sleep and were definitely feeling loads better! bus was planned to leave at 9 but after everything was sorted out we got going at 90:30. Not too bad :-)
After about an hour on the bus we passed by some scenery that looked remarkably like we were back home in Sunny Scotland. Only thing was of course that were were up at 4000M (13 000feet) up at least, which is 3 times higher than the tallest Mountain in the U.K. Pretty cool.
We stopped for a short break where ther was a huge collection of prayer flags as well as views of some of the tallest mountains in the world (Mt. Cho Oyo 8201m and Mt. Xishapagma 8012m).
The first main stop of the day was at the Lalungla pass 5050m (16 568 feet for the metrically challenged). Where the Altitude Mountain sickness started to make its effect known. Silly me of course thought I'd try a short run to see how much it would affect em. So 60 secs later, gasping for breath and feeling a small headache starting I give it up as a bad idea. However we did get some fantastic views of Everest on the way to our lunch stop, as although it had been cloudy for a good bit of the way there it opened up enought to get some cracking shots. When I get some time I'll try and put a few up here.
So we instead went for some lunch. Instead of following our guide into his 'friends' restruant M and M decided we wanted to try out a local Momo shop. After a good bit of laughing, pointing and eventually us going into the kitchen to explain we wanted a small portion of vege momo's we sat back and tucked into a great portion of Momo's for next to nothing and to acompany this meal workpeople were outside building a wall singing in Tibetean. Unforgettable!
After lunch we continued on our way to Lhatse, where we ended up having to stop as a girl in one of the 4wd's was really getting a bad case of AMS to the point that she had to have some oxygen to keep her from passing out. With all of this and the exciting viwes it was an eventful bouncy road in to Lahtse.
When we got to Lhatse we headed out and found a small restruant across the road from the hotel, the best thing apart from the food was that before teh old lady who run it allowed us to order anything we had to say it in Mandarin. A very tasty vegetable Noodle Soup was enjoyed by both of us.
Day 3 Lhatse to Xigatse
Another long day today with 250km needing to be done. Which would be fine of course on a motorway, fortunately this hasn't been put in yet by the Chinese (but there working on it) so the view at times looks like the wilderness it is. With the obligatory scenery stops and other breaks we continued up the highest pass (Gyatchu Lu) which stands at 5220m (17 125 feet).
Today wasnt so bad with respect to the AMS as most people seemed to have got over most of the effects and could enjoy the sights with only minor headaches. In the afternoon we also passed Mt Kailash which is Tibets most sacred mountain, unfortunately the guide book I had didn't go in to much detail so will have to do some more research on it to determine why.
At the usual time of 7pm we pull in to Xigatse. Another day complete and time to rest, recharge and refuel.
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May 28, 2004 06:00 PM Nepal to Tibet via The Friendship Highway
Wow! Well we arrived in Lhasa 2 days ago at about 7 o'clock at night and thoroughly knackered.
The drive we had tok 5 full days and I'll do my best to describe each seperately below, enjoy.
Day 1 : Kathmandu - Nyalam
Up at 4am this morning as teh bus was meant to leave at 05:15, however at :06:30 it finally left. To say I was grumpy would be an understatement as I was really pissed off with having to be up so early and then haing to spend more than 1 hour on a bus waiting to levae. However once we set off we managed to get a bit of snoozing on the bus. We got to the border town of Kodari in Nepal, where we had to wait apparently until it was our time to go through the border control. However the drive up was fantastic with really scary sheer drops at teh edge of the road and we also passed the 160m bunjee jump that you can do in Nepal. After wasting 1 hour or so in a prearranged restruant (baksheesh was obviously involved) we headed out and proceeded to wait again before we got through the first test, a SARS body temperature check. After that we had to hike 1.5 km up the road to our waiting bus. Then we got taken to the immigration were we duly processed and finally allowed in to Tibet. We were also given a new guide called Katy who headed off while we were in the bus to get us our travel permits from the police. Unfortunately he didn't tell us that it would take an hour, so we all waited like sheep on the bus when we could have headed out and explored. Ohh well. After a while we were back on teh road again and arrived at Nyalam where we were berthed and me and M deceided to grab a quick bite to eat before going to bed as we were totally shattered. Fortunately I had decided to take everything thing katy said with abit of salt and after asking him a couple of time he fnally let us now that he wanted us to meet at 9 am the next morning, following a moment of inspiration I also asked what the time was and found that it was 2.15 hours ahead of Nepal time. With this info we headed to bed!
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May 24, 2004 06:00 PM Back in Kathmandu and Future Plans
Well we finally made it back to Kathmandu, we eventually managed to leave Chitwan on the Friday after the strikes ahd finished. However we did meet a really nice set of people and learned 2 new card games. So at least we should keep busy, it turned out that Luke was a carpenter and his mate Jean – Philippe was a computer programmer. They had got to India and had bought motorbikes and had driven up from India to Chitwan with a plan to tour Nepal for a bit before heading back down to India. Matt was a soux Chef for Skimming Castle in London area, so were going to ask for Momo’s when we get there J
We had originally planned to do some trekking in Pokhara up to a hot spring called Tatopani, however it costs 2000 rupees each (about 20 quid) just for a permit as well as the need to hire a guide, on top of which you have to add in 1000 rupees each for a donation to Maoists as well. On top of this the Monsoon had started to really kick in, all things considered we didn’t feel too confident about it as well as the fact we need to save some cash as we’ve got a long way to go. So we’ve agreed that were coming back in 2 years and will do it properly then. At least though we managed to get totally kitted out with Goretex gear for both us pretty cheaply in Kathmandu so we’ve got the gear for next time. So we decided to spend a day walking around the city seeing the sights, Devil’s Falls and Peace Pagoda and went for our last beer in Pokhara.
Now the night life in Pokhara is pretty good as lots of restaurants will play films, so we ended up watching Seven Years in Tibet, in a Tibetan restaurant with Tibetan people. Now I know I get my hackles raised when I watched Braveheart and the like, but it can’t be anything compared to what these people must feel like.
After the film ended we walked across the road to Café Amsterdam, where just as we were about to leave who pop’s up behind us but Matt! He had just got in that day and was going to spend a bit of time in the area. Of course with us having a bus to catch in the morning the sensible thing would be to head home and get some sleep. More beer was called and another hour of drinking was achieved, good planning.
So today were back in Kathmandu and were trying to get in to China, however if we want to fly in its going to cost us 350USD each, which is a bit steep. We’d hard lots of horror stories though about appearing at the border of Tibet with the officials ripping out your China visa before giving you a 15 days visa, now that’s not what Me and M want as we have a 3 month visa that we don’t want to lose. So were going to do some checking with the China embassies to see if we can some how stopover and keep our visa’s. Wish us luck.
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Apr 30, 2004 06:00 PM Nepal - Roof of the World
Well I've been a bit lax recently with keeping this up to date, so will run over whats happened since last time.
When we got back to Delhi, we ended up staying at the office of a nice guy called Manu who was also on the white water rafting. However he was actually there as part of a report he was writing for his website (http://www.travelindia.com). So in exchange for me and M writing a few words on our experiences of India we had free gratis accommodation in Delhi! However the best was yet to come as where eh had his office was in the suburbs of Delhi, and by goodness did it make a difference. No staring, no hassling from beggars (well just as much as the locals anyway) and the food was proper real Indian food that was watered down for the western palate. This definitely saved our impression of India as we met real people and the difference was to us amazing. Even better was the that in the kitchen we had a burner so we got to make our own food too, of course we needed to buy a few supplies, so off we trooped down to the local Tuesday market where we got a huge selection of food for only 30 rupees. While this was going on me and Maranda had our own paparazzi as Manu and his assistant Deleks took pictures of us. Not only content with that Manu also took us to a few really good restaurants so he could get pics of us eating huge Dosa’s and Idlis and a variety of other gorgeous food. Me and M were a lot happier when we got to the airport!
Well when we arrived in Nepal we expected more of the same style of hassles as we saw in India. Well we were wrong. Note: interesting thing was when we got in to our pre paid taxi from the airport to the Thamel area, another guy got in and started telling us about te whole situation with the Maoists and what was going on, but in very concealed terms. It wasn’t till he had jumped out just before we got to our destination that we put 2 and 2 together and realize that he was probably either a government official or a sympathizer.
Nepal is fantastic, the people are really friendly and are happy to help and they don’t hassle you too much at all. Thast was the conclusion we came to when we had got ourselves in to the Kathmandu Guest house, and had found a small pub just outside and had a few drinks. The plan was to spend 2 days in the capital before heading out and exploring abit. Unfortunately we found we really enjoyed walking down eth side streets with all the intricate carvings on the doors, lintels and walls. Finding small temples as you walk around a corner and generally living life very relaxingly. Of course the inevitable happened and we bumped in to a variety of people who forced us to go drinking (damm) of which yet agains was the usual set of English, French Canadians, Kiwi’s and Ozzie’s. Will we ever learn!
We did manage to get out though and we headed to Chitwan where there is a national park. Once there we had a really cool elephant safari where we got to within 2 meters of 2 rhino’s who were having a bath, and also spotted deers, wild elephants and a variety of birds. Also since that had finished at 10 in the morning, we managed to go swimming with (tame) elephants in the river, where it was great fun to be pushed about by the gorgeous creatures. Definitely recommended. Also in the afternoon we had a jeep safari so we could get in deep to the park, as we were going along we spotted a few more beasts as well as the disappearing bum of a sloth bear! Of course as you can guess we hada few people with us on the safari, one English lad called Mat, One Ozzie called Luke and one French Canadian called Jean Philippe, typical….
The shock of the day though was finding a army troop who were searching the woods for Maoists, all the guy’s in the troop looked 16, but all were packing big automatic rifles…..
When we got back though we were all crammed in to the back of the jeep as we had stopped to help two lassies who had been walking in the woods but had got bad blisters on the their feet, chivalrous people that we are. Of course by the time we got back to the river, we were all thirsty and puckish, strange that one of the riverside pubs had a happy hour on then with free chips or popcorn per beer. Once drunken night later with 2 scots, 1 english, 1 ozzie and yes 1 canadian later we had become firm friends, which was just as well as there was a strike on for the next 3 days. Of course we knew this before we got there but we had been assured by our friendly hotelier that tourist bus’s would still run. This certainly wasn’t the case, combined with that the entire town of Sauarya closed down and the only place where we could eat for the three days was the same pub…
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Apr 30, 2004 06:00 PM Nepal - Roof of the World
Well I've been a bit lax recently with keeping this up to date, so will run over whats happened since last time.
When we got back to Delhi, we ended up staying at the office of a nice guy called Manu who was also on the white water rafting. However he was actually there as part of a report he was writing for his website (http://www.travelindia.com). So in exchange for me and M writing a few words on our experiences of India we had free gratis accommodation in Delhi! However the best was yet to come as where eh had his office was in the suburbs of Delhi, and by goodness did it make a difference. No staring, no hassling from beggars (well just as much as the locals anyway) and the food was proper real Indian food that was watered down for the western palate. This definitely saved our impression of India as we met real people and the difference was to us amazing. Even better was the that in the kitchen we had a burner so we got to make our own food too, of course we needed to buy a few supplies, so off we trooped down to the local Tuesday market where we got a huge selection of food for only 30 rupees. While this was going on me and Maranda had our own paparazzi as Manu and his assistant Deleks took pictures of us. Not only content with that Manu also took us to a few really good restaurants so he could get pics of us eating huge Dosa’s and Idlis and a variety of other gorgeous food. Me and M were a lot happier when we got to the airport!
Well when we arrived in Nepal we expected more of the same style of hassles as we saw in India. Well we were wrong. Note: interesting thing was when we got in to our pre paid taxi from the airport to the Thamel area, another guy got in and started telling us about te whole situation with the Maoists and what was going on, but in very concealed terms. It wasn’t till he had jumped out just before we got to our destination that we put 2 and 2 together and realize that he was probably either a government official or a sympathizer.
Nepal is fantastic, the people are really friendly and are happy to help and they don’t hassle you too much at all. Thast was the conclusion we came to when we had got ourselves in to the Kathmandu Guest house, and had found a small pub just outside and had a few drinks. The plan was to spend 2 days in the capital before heading out and exploring abit. Unfortunately we found we really enjoyed walking down eth side streets with all the intricate carvings on the doors, lintels and walls. Finding small temples as you walk around a corner and generally living life very relaxingly. Of course the inevitable happened and we bumped in to a variety of people who forced us to go drinking (damm) of which yet agains was the usual set of English, French Canadians, Kiwi’s and Ozzie’s. Will we ever learn!
We did manage to get out though and we headed to Chitwan where there is a national park. Once there we had a really cool elephant safari where we got to within 2 meters of 2 rhino’s who were having a bath, and also spotted deers, wild elephants and a variety of birds. Also since that had finished at 10 in the morning, we managed to go swimming with (tame) elephants in the river, where it was great fun to be pushed about by the gorgeous creatures. Definitely recommended. Also in the afternoon we had a jeep safari so we could get in deep to the park, as we were going along we spotted a few more beasts as well as the disappearing bum of a sloth bear! Of course as you can guess we hada few people with us on the safari, one English lad called Mat, One Ozzie called Luke and one French Canadian called Jean Philippe, typical….
The shock of the day though was finding a army troop who were searching the woods for Maoists, all the guy’s in the troop looked 16, but all were packing big automatic rifles…..
When we got back though we were all crammed in to the back of the jeep as we had stopped to help two lassies who had been walking in the woods but had got bad blisters on the their feet, chivalrous people that we are. Of course by the time we got back to the river, we were all thirsty and puckish, strange that one of the riverside pu8bs had a happy hour on then with free chips or popcorn per beer. Once drunken night later with 2 scots, 1 english, 1 ozzie and yes 1 canadian later we had become firm friends, which was just as well as there was a strike on for the next 3 days. Of course we knew this before we got there but we had been assured by our friendly hotelier that tourist bus’s would still run. This certainly wasn’t the case, combined with that the entire town of Sauarya closed down and the only place where we could eat for the three days was the same pub…
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