MEAT! (the following content might not be suitable for vegeterians)

But, because nothing can be perfect, there is this little detail that has been growing little by little and is taking a good share of our thoughts. We need meat desperately (and present all of our excuses to the vegetarians who will read these lines). We didn’t realize as we planned our trip that we only stopped in religious places, and according to the Hindu rules, meat products are banned from holy surroundings. We started to feel already in 0rchha that meat would help us ground ourselves down. To be fair, we start to unground seriously, partly because of our diet and partly because of India and Indians themselves. We are not high yet, but not quite down-to-earth either. We thought leaving Orchha that Bundi would be okay (the guidebooks don’t mention any holiness there). But no, we get our first hint of it being a hard-to-get-meat area as we don’t see any egg sellers in the streets. Egg sellers are the key sign to know you are in a vegetarian or non-vegeterian place. But we don’t loose all hopes as we see on the advertisements for tourist restaurant the mention “non-veg”. However, the idea of going up to one of these fancy roof-top restaurants is not an ideal picture for us. So we postpone day after day the crucial moment of climbing up the stairs to get our plate of grounding. On the last evening, we decide ourselves and go up to one. But as we see the settings (fake and pretentious), read the menu (full of “macaroni and cheese”, “pizzas”, “chinese noodles”…) and see the prices (the  price of a night in the hotel), we cannot stand it and go out once, twice, three times. We are about to loose hope, but one idea stayed: at Lunch, we had passed by two non-veg street restaurant. We are taken between our need of meat and the fright of it being not so safe on the hygienic side… But then, thinking that so far, we only have been eating in these street restaurants where many Indians go everyday and that nothing stomach wise has happened to us (besides eating to much), we give it a go… but don’t dare to take the meat ! We eat two eggs, still very happily.