Kama Sutra, etc

Hey guys,
Kanpur has been better than we could ever have imagined. Colin's friend, Shashi, and her family are the nicest people on the face of this earth. They were just what the doctor ordered. Its so relaxed here. We thought that we would be staying a couple of days and then head on but that not how it has turned out. We have been invited to stay with them for a week or so and use their house as a base and travel around to a few towns and sights in the vicinity. By vicinity I mean roughly 5 to 7 hours away. We went to Khajurao, reputedly home of the Kama Sutra and went to visit all the temples. They were interesting, to say the least. Plenty of carvings of scantily clad women and, ahem, a little bit more. It was really incredible though. There must have been about 10 temples or more around the whole town which was no bigger than a small town. Of course, by Indian standards it was only a tiny village. The road to Khajurao was the worst I've ever driven. For about 70 to 100 km there was essentially no road. It was worse than anything you have ever seen in Ireland. Just imagine the worst road in Ireland and multiply it by 100. Just a quick insight into how poor some of the people of this country are: while we were driving through a small village on our way back from tantric temple village we spotted a little girl walking behind a cow with a tin pan in her hand. She was collecting the cow dung from the cow so that they could make it into pats that could then be dried and used to fue the fires. All along the roads you can see these big mounds of drying cow pats. We laugh because it seems absurd to us but I guess its the only way that these people are going to have fuel for fires to keep them warm at night. On a lighter note we were acosted by this guy called Kumar while looking at a Muslim festival and he invited us back to his shop to drink chai (tea). of course he was trying to seel us stuff but apart from that he was a really nice guy. oh ya, there was a German bakery in the middle of the town. We thought it was really funny the all the way over here in India there would be a German bakery. So random. You gotta love this country. See ya.