Handley Family Big Adventure 2011: Day 170 11 Dec Sun KHAJURAHO

Oh my goodness... we only have days in single figures left!!!!

Our penultimate train journey - from Varanasi to Khajuraho - and the girls do their usual thing of stepping up and getting on with it.

We arrive early and collected by Mr Abed Khan - he delivers us to the Hotel Surya and we once again settle in. We have been given a very big room but the internet doesnt get switched on until the "man" arrives as no one else knows the password. He is late - which infuriates David and the www access is patchy a best. We eat an early breakfast and then wander into the very small town of Khajuraho.

We have been warned about the touts and "English language practise" attempts and in the space of 50m must have been approached by every man and his dog with shouts of "Hello - What is your name? Twins? Your daughters? Hello baby (to the girls). Where are you from?" all of this a prelude to "Come and see my shop/tuk tuk/restaurant/cafe/souvenir stall!" This results in several of the most comedy conversations we have had on our travels. All take place as we walk along and most run along the lines of...
Them - "Hello - Where are you from?/Which country?"
Us "No thankyou."
Them - "Hello - Where are you from?/Which country?"(More persistantly)
Us - "England/Germany/Australia/Sweden/China/Greenland..." (our answers becoming more and more outlandish at every juncture.
Them - "Oh, nice place! - What is your name?" To the girls.
At first...
Us- "Tiegan."
Them - "Oh, Tiegan." (said slowly and emphatically)
Us - "Rowan"
Them - "Oh, Wo wen." (We have discovered that Rowan is a very hard name for them to say -which adds it's own comedy value!)

Then...

Us - "Lisa/Sarah/Josh/Fred/Fernando/Deckchair etc" (progressing more and more into the realms of implausability
Them - "Oh - nice name. How many languages can you speak?"
Us - "1/3/17/74..."
Them - "Me to. Where are you going?"
Us - Just walking.
Them - Come and see my shop/etc etc...

And so it goes on and on and on....all the time getting more and more ludicrous. It gets very tedious after a while!

We decide not to eat in this "crows nest" restaurant the Bamboori Treat... say it fast enough and you get an idea of the bizarre English signage we have seen... also a wine shop selling "Cold wine and Child Bear"...