Tea, tea and more tea...

Today has been magical and great fun - we left this morning in thick cloud but as we descended our mountain the clouds thinned and the sun shone. After driving through a large connerbation during rush hour and a really delightful village that Neil said reminded him of Cornwall (really had to use my imagination for that one) we began our ascent to the tea plantations through countryside which I can only describe as majestic - it is so so beautiful - each hairpin bend leading to an even more breathtakng view until we arrived at the hill station Munnar in the middle of mile upon mile of tea!

There were however 'words' exchanged on route - we are clearly feeling the strains of ten days of driving and Neil lost his rag twice today - I know you're going to find it hard to believe but I remained calm (oh the beauty of writing the blog)!  But  I digress; the first 'exchange' was as a result of Neil's difficulty in reading our map whilst looking out for an 'English wine shop' (a bit of a misnomer as they don't sell wine) after coming to our fourth fork/T junction with no word from Neil as to which way to go - all I said was 'you're supposed to be navigating' - when the bottom lip went out and he shouted that it was not possible for him to do two two things at once - oh what fun I've had with that.

The second was when we were on a narrow bit of road with a vertiginous drop to one side and a large bus motoring towards us whilst blaring his horn loudly and continuously - I couldn't believe how little space there was availalble so was trying furiously to capture the moment by photographing said bus (it was exciting) but Neil screamed at me that this was not the time for taking holiday snaps! Anyway, we made it and holiday snap is v good!

Before I go Neil said today that to see the tea plantations in all their glory has been worth every gruelling kilometre!  And lastly - how on earth did Russia get to host the 2018 world cup?!