Extreme (Tran)Sports and a Bizarre Bazaar incident

As some of you might know I cannae be bothered watching the telly and spend a lot of my freetime playing video games, eh... for research purposes you understand. So I thought that I would write the next post with something of a theme about video games. It is my view that everyone who came over with the group has successfully become a Extreme Transports Triathlete and that some of us are about to become Extreme Transports Pentathletes! Going through the events one by one in chronological order:

Endurance Longhaul Flight - take twenty people and send them halfway round the world with extremely inconvenient flight times. They can watch their plane go round and round in circles to add to the torture!
Scream Taxi - take groups of three or four people round a strange city and drive as fast as you can without worrying about anything else going on and around you. Sometimes toot your horn to add to the madness!
World Wrestling Trainboarding - try to get onto a train with hundreds of strangers and and sprint for a seat, if you don't get a seat or a handle to hold onto... sorry you have to stand at an open door of a moving train at 70mph and trust the people next to you. Lightweights can opt of the wrestling and take their chances in the cargo compartment.
Platform Game Ferry Boarding - this is just like getting onto any ferry only its more like something out of Super Mario or Donkey Kong! You have to time your jump right - complete level one successfully by gaining entry to the ferry! Level two - jump from one ferry to the next, this adds to the difficulty of timing because two ferries are now randomly bobbing! Tall people have to also think about not bumping their heads...
Craziest Taxi - just like Crazy Taxi and Scream Taxi but with three wheels! No one from the Extreme (Tran)Sports Team has yet managed to do this...


After Platform Game Ferry Boarding (round one) we were on a ferry for a wee culture and heritage voyage across the Arabian Sea to an island called Elephanta Island. The crossing was really smooth - unlike a journey I had in a boat along the Costa Almeria in Spain last year and allowed people to get themselves together after jumping about like Captain Jack Sparrow. On the journey it had a real Pirates of the Carribean feel about it and we could see islands dotted on the misty horizon, who knows what lurked beneath! On arrival at the island we headed up towards caves sacred for Hindus by climbing up 120 stairs, I had to stop halfway up to wipe sweat out of my eyes and grab a drink. When I took a drink, I caught the eye of... a monkey that was feeding a dog - this was on the edge of the market (bazaar) - how bizarre!

When I entered the caves it reminded me of Tomb Raider - Legends and I had to stop myself from trying to shift big boulders to see if a secret mountain passage would unveil itself! The caves were full of the most amazing stone carvings and after looking at them all and discovering that my latest disposable camera's flash didn't work I went for a walk up a mountain with my room-mate Martin. The views were unbelievable and we were able to see three native villages surrounded by all sorts of industry - think of the film about the dancing penguin and you might get an idea. A guy on the mountain path gave us some advice and we headed off on our adventure round to see why the mountain was called Cannon Hill. On the way back down we had a drink of juice with the guy - K.P. and we ended up with him starring in a film that Martin and me made up with him! I hope I don't lose the phone camera and can show yeez it when I get back! Anyway we got back after buying some stuff and the rigorous climb took its toll on Martin so he went for a 'wee kip'. I better go cos I have to waken him up! Oh by the way I saw some nice comments from some people and this was almost as bizarre as the monkey feeding the dog - just not quite!