Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Best Breakfast Ever!

Morning I got up late … thinking makes you stay in bed longer, and usually u get up confused. I found thinking sessions sitting by the hilltop looking at the valley more productive than the ones in bed. as I got up and saw the valley from the room’s window a brilliant idea struck me.
Excited I knocked at the neighbor’s door “Have u had breakfast? Would u like to have fresh bread with pahari tomatoes and loads of cheese?”
“Wow yes” the Canadian girl said. Voila I got someone to share the breakfast and the expense with me ))

We went to a roadside tea stall with our shopping of whole wheat bread with sesame seeds, fresh red tomatoes and cheese. I sliced the tomatoes asked the tea stall guy to make tea and do the bread for us. A biker from Spiti joined us and four people had a nice breakfast on a hilltop tea stall. The season for visiting Spiti is just starting and they are still clearing blocked roads …the biker proudly informed “your first man there…locals helped me push the biked through debris…”

My Canadian friend was surprised on several occasions, when I got up n stood with the tea stall guy and assisted making the breakfast, when handed an equal share of our cheese tomato sandwich to the biker and the stall guy without asking, at the ease with which people from different continents talked, and the generous tip we left behind…and to my surprise, as we walked out of the stall in the sun talking about the weather she said “best breakfast ever”!