Saturday 27th October - Day 42 Am in Varansi and floating on air. We're at a rather wonderful hotel with a swimming pool, plenty of internet acess and a beauty parlour and I've just had a pedicure. My feet were soaked in warm water, milk and rose petals, then scrubbed with lemon and exfoliated with honey and sugar. Yesterday I had a leg wax, and had my eyebrows and upper lip threaded. The beautician, a plump and jolly woman, had a long piece of thread which she twisted, held the two ends, picked up a middle part with her teeth, then carefully twisted round the stray hairs, while I held my forehead taut. Then with a few quick tugs on the thread, while bobbing her head up and down, I felt half my eyebrow rain down
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