Harry’s Darjeeling Blog
Hello! And welcome to the blog fzzzzt fzzzt beep…! Today I will be giving a special issue! Since you`re all on Easter holiday I am going to do some videos!
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| Darjeeling - reminded Harry of Scotland |
So anyway, last week (written 4th April) we ventured to Darjeeling. We had a 4 hour car journey up the Himalayas and arrived at a cold, Scotlandy hotel. (It was extremely like an island off the Scottish coast called Arran, and the hotel had the features of Arran... e.g. cold climate, wooden floors, Scottish architecture and misty Scottish mornings.)
Next morning, I woke up and did some DSI and Mum banned it for the rest of the day. We walked to town and went on the famous toy train. (A very small steam train which goes around the Himalayan foothills.) My brother forgot his camera and our tour guide had to follow the train in his car and pass the camera through the window while the train was moving! It was a very slow train.
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| We really DID go to the mountaineering institute.... |
We then stayed there and did nothing (note from ma – we went to the zoo and saw three types of leopard, a red panda, a bear, a tiger and some monkeys, we went to the Himalayan Mountain Institute and museum and saw lots of artefacts from expeditions to Everest, we went to the Tibetan Refugee Centre and took a trip on a small steam engine – but apart from that, as Harry says, we did NOTHING) until we went on yet another 3 hour car journey to a place called Glenburn. (it was actually a one and a half hour car journey, says ma) (A very Scottish name, says Harry.)
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| TEA! |
When we went to dinner a storm started brewing and a colossal fork of lightning struck a power station and the power went out. Luckily, the hotel had its own generators and the power was soon back on although the rest of the valley was still dark and we could see torchlights flashing everywhere.
The next day we went on a walk which was 10 times longer than Marriage Hill. (Warning! This next sentence is completely true. I am not joking. It would have been 20 times longer than Marriage Hill if I had walked the whole way.) Half way there I got so tired that I fell on the ground and almost fainted. The jeep had to pick us up and then it took us where we were going. We turned up next to a river and then got changed to go swimming. I found some mud next to the river and started slidingJ. I soon fell into the river and started swimming. It was FREEZING!
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| Tea in packing cases. First flush in wooden cases and second flush cardboard boxes |
The day after that we went to a tea factory and there should be some videos here. (I really liked the tasting part J and the filtering process where they put dried bits of tea leaves on a shaky ramp and shook it to get the bad bits out.)
We soon went to the airport and left for Delhi. And what do you know, here we are! Well, it seems I have written all I can write!
And now for some recommended YouTube titles to entertain you! There is Klay World: Pancake Mines and there`s also The Annoying Orange. These are both non-violent and they don`t have swearing! (note from ma...the pancake mines video blows up all the klay people and annoying orange contains scenes of graphic violence against fruit - using knives...apart from that, as Harry says, totally non-violent)
Well, goodbye! Click!FZZZT FZZZT BANG POW! Ouch.
