Devil Monkey

It was my last day in Ooty so I went for a little wander before my train came and low and behold, I immediately bumped into Benny (the 20 year old birthday boy).  I can only imagine he camped outside for the night.  The fact that I didn’t call him apparently gave him no indication at all that I wasn’t remotely interested.  He said he was waiting for me as he wanted to give me a massage (what is it with Indian men and massages).  Could you be any weirder, Benny boy?

I managed to ditch my young stalker and walked into town.  On my travels I met Danny Glover (travel agent) and my little 6 fingered pal (no tears today).  They are both really sweet.  6 finger man was by far the most excited though as he said “whoop whoop, Kate is here” Bless his little cottons.  I even managed to find some wifi (so my pictures are now on facebook).  I now have 3 trains to catch, totalling an impressive 16.5 hours.  India is really fucking big.

I got the miniature steam train from Ooty to Mettupalayam.  It goes around the mountain and the views are breathtakingly beautiful.  From the train you can see the forests, waterfalls and tea plantations.  I tried to take some photos but they came out pretty cack so you’ll just have to take my word for it.  As Peskett said (Hello Andy), all the shit stuff will be forgotten (with a few months of intensive therapy under my belt) but that train journey will stay with me forever.

The downside to the train journey was that a young Indian girl started to speak to me and I couldn’t understand a word she was saying.  I'm assuming that she was speaking English but it was very hard to tell.  She told me her name about 10 times and each time was waiting for me to repeat it.  It had about 20 syllables for fuck sake.  Why couldn’t she just have been called Sue?   It was excruciatingly painful.  Luckily someone saw a herd of wild elephants out of the window so that ended what seemed like the longest half an hour of my life. 

The train had a scheduled stop at a place called Hillgrove Station.  We all got off to get snacks etc and were surrounded by monkeys.  I may have now seen about a million monkeys since I arrived but I still get excited.  Who doesn’t love a monkey? They were super tame and were taking food from our hands (I nearly passed out from glee at this stage).  One of them though had a fucked up face and looked like a devil monkey (pictures soon to be on facebook).  Even Bieber wouldn’t want this one.