Golden Temple visit - amazing I spent some time soaking it up.
Went back to go to my toilet. Just sheer luxury. Trouble is every person on the way wants you in their shop or their tuktuk.
Clothes came back from the Christian hotel worker, who insisted the hotel doesn't do it, but he could hook me up. They're spread on the bed, so wet. I should have put in my other undies as well. I hand washed 5 to avoid the dryer.
Wandered done alleyways. So peaceful, beautiful, interesting. Some homes could be really beautiful. They're just a bit run down, but amazing wood details, town houses like ours, in the central part of town, and very quiet.
It's 12.08. I want to try Thali for something new, but he says sorry that's for lunch, right now is breakfast only.
I'll try again at dinner. Even if they're still serving lunch, I can't miss out then, right? ... right?? 😄
In the afternoon, I went to the Partition Museum. What a downer. It is such a shame that the place got divided up, based on something random like religion. As far as I've heard, Jinnah did not understand the effects of a hard border. He kept a property in Delhi? and thought he would be able to visit it whenever. Kind of funny when you see the hard core wire fence and no man's land separating the nation's now.
So many stories of families split up, people leaving everything behind, entire trains where everyone was murdered. One Muslim family hid a refugee attempting to get to India. They were afraid that the whole family would be killed if anyone found out, because they were hiding a Hindu girl. Sounds like when German families hid Jews, or same for Bosniaks and Croatians. The message here is like a cracked record of other places.
Tonight's dinner was a thali. It was ok. Need to reduce my eating.
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