still in Hampi Thursday!

Right, gotta get this down before I go off on my over night firstclass train to Bangalore this evening. This morning Shiv met me at 8.30 and off we drove through the most amazing paddie fields, the best type of vivid green and loads of banana plantations. It was so beautiful. We parked up the rickshaw and then had to get onto this coracle for the river crossing. It spun in circles all the way across and coz I was away from the tourist areas the guys were really staring at me. Thank God I was wearing a shirt. Then Shiv and I walked for about 3 miles and ended up at this hill . We had to climb 600 steps in the 11am heat and at the top was a temple to Hanuman the Hindu monkey god. In Hindu mythology he was born here. He's the playful trouble maker in the Ramayana. If any of you lot remember Monkey magic that Chinese, Japanese Buddhist freaky kids programme where he said MONKEY alot and flew around on a cloud? Well it's him, but not the mental TV version. It was so peaceful and we just sat for ages in the temple while the monks chanted and read books. No pictures inside but you can get a general idea from this picture.
The Saddhu, who I'm gonna post on yesterday's blog was there and just in a cloth this time and he ended up blessing us. Got a nice orange mark on my face this time. Right just posted some bed covers back to UK. Ended up as a bit of a con really. bloody ridiculously expensive to post but was an experience in the post office. Covers had to be sewn in white cloth and then sealed with wax. I had to go and copy my passport and give 20 Rs backhander to the postman for his 'helpful free advice'. He even had the cheek to ask if I was retired and that's way I could have long holiday in India. I had a go at him saying bloody hell mate, get your eyes checked.