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April 25th 2014

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Boomshakala you lot! Just to let you I actually wrote this a couple of weeks ago, but have just got round to finishing off the pictures….Luvs J. Hello everyone. This is going to be an uncharacteristically long post. I usually try and keep these things short because I know folk are busy. But I think my time in Nepal has given me a bit of time to reflect on India. So to Kashmir. Sadly for me the... Read Full Entry

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Did I mention a military presence?

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This is a bad shot, but these could have been the woods of home that I miss so much. Had the same feel, the same smell. Some days I miss home very much.

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The Tulip Garden in Srinigar. Proper nice. And tidy. And clean. And not Indian at all. Kashmiris pride themselves on not being Indian.

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The clouds rolling in. It was pretty cold and wet. Very similar to the UK.

Beautiful gardens.

We came across the shooting of music video. I like the music scene here it seems localised and accessible to folk.

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A Hippy Hindustan...

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This is how they roll round here.

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Kashmir, so I am told, is the only place outside of England where they grow Willow commercially for the production of Cricket bats. These things that look like pallets are in fact bits of Willow waiting to be made in to bats.

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They loves a bit of military here they do. Ok, you get the point no more solider pictures.

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I rarely get angry with people but I got angry with this chap. He hopped in the jeep with a plastic bottle full of petrol. That is normal. Not having a cap on the bottle is not. After spilling it everywhere I ordered him to put his hand over the top.

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These folk were angry about having no electricity in their village for a few days so they blocked the road in protest.

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Cricket is everywhere here.

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See that? A Conker!

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We managed to go for a walk in the woods and made a fire. I could have been in the woods of home I love to much. I don't make fires anymore at home out of fear of arrest, but I used to.

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I love mountains. They seems so untouched by humans, but of course they are.

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I haven't included a toilet shot for a while so I thought I this would make up for it.

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I didn't take this picture, it was in a shop window but I thought it was funny.

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Power cuts in Kathmandu are actually scheduled in. There is a website where you can find out which area of the city is going to be without power and for how long.

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