In morning, I enjoy more swimming. Meg, Dave and Joost are also in the pool, and they build a single column pyramid of bodies with Joost at the bottom and Meg at the top. This collapses resulting in Joost having a cricked neck and Meg is just grateful that she isn’t a man as the incident might have put paid to any future possibility of parenthood.
In the afternoon, Meg, Dave and I go to the Golden Temple. This is spectacular and yet not too touristy as it retains its use as an active Sikh temple with people ceremonially bathing in its waters. The water from the pool which encompasses most of the courtyard area of the temple overflows onto the walkway. Meg slips and breaks her not inexpensive camera lens.
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| photo Lu G |
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| no shoes allowed inside |
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| ...and covered heads required and Meg mourning her lens (Dave J photo) |
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| photo Dave J |
We then go to a bar in a hotel dubbed the JB007 (James Bond) bar for cocktails with John and Tracy. Afterwards we have some beers at the guesthouse, though Mrs Bandiran’s daughter, who now runs the guesthouse in the absence of the late Mrs Bandiran, does mention that she would appreciate an earlier bedtime tonight.
Amongst the guesthouse buildings I discover a compound where some buffalo are kept, so I go to pet them, though they seem disinterested.
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