Wind In My Head: 500 miles
Wind In My Head
Thursday, December 15, 2005
500 miles
We've been away from Singapore for 17 days and so far, the holiday's been great, despite the hanging, the riots, the evacuation from the hotel and the horse that went swimming. Oh right, I forgot to mention that. Packrat and I went horseriding in the valleys of Blue Mountains on the day when it was 38 degrees and Packrat's horse, Marty, decided when we stopped for them to have a drink, that it was time to go swimming- with Packrat on his back. We found out after that how water proof Timberlands were. We also discovered how difficult it was to actually kick a horse in its belly.
This is Marty. Horseriding would be great fun if there weren't flies or severly bruised inner legs the next day which meant walking the next day was a big problem. And seeing that our preferred mode of transport this holiday seems to be walking, that meant hanging out in front of the telly. Before we left, I listened to a proposal to introduce the 10 000 Steps programme in Singapore and wondered whether it could work. Then we came here and walked and walked and walked and I'm certain we do cover 10 000 steps a day.
So we get our requisite amounts of exercise a day and that allows us to eat all the rubbish that we do. I think tomorrow, we're going easy and doing sushi. Today, we had hot szechuan noodle soup and dried chilli chicken that made my tummy extremely unhappy with me.
Ondine tossed this thought in at 21:50