Camping in Isle of Wight 30th April – 3rd May 2010

30/04/2010 Friday – Gym. Pack. Rewatch Naruto Shippuden Movie 2 (Bonds) at Sags. Over to Neha’s to fit the seats in the van. Shopping with Sach, Sag, Poo in Asda, Nish joins us, Neel cheerleads us. We shop for 3 hours man! It was so long, even the check out lady saved our receipt as a souvenir. Over to Sach’s for some chilly ass pizza and packing. Back to Sags, I stay awake till 2am burning music for the trip.

1/05/2010 Saturday – Wake at 5.30. Neel comes by with some chilly pau bhaji that made a good brekkie. Petrol. Shalins to pack. Back to Sags to get the yum yums. Over to Sach’s again to pack. Back to Sags to get Sach’s sleeping bag. Lol. Ok there’s another Sach now so we’ll call the tall one Sach and we’ll call Sach #1 Sacho. Pack Sacho and Roochi’s things. And we on the road! South Hampton ferry. Drinks, chit chat. Bond with Roochi about AOL and spiritual stuff. Now we get to the Chine Farm Camping Site and I wanna pee badly. I ask the reception lady and the way she directed me I thought it was gonna be far so I run across some house fences and get my leak on. From a distance I hear this granny that was in the car shouting at Nishil asking him where ‘that boy has gone, there’s nothing over there’. So I unload asap and pretend I went to wave Sag down if he was coming from the other direction. She started chatting about we better behave or she’ll have the police over and we don’t tolerate yap yap. Then she gets back in her car and continues her spying. And when I say spying… picture a busybody on her open driveway driving to the front of the drive to have a closer look at the people parked across the road… then she reverses back. I sure wanted to play some pranks on her but we had to pitch tents.

We got such a wicked spot at the edge of the cliff looking out to the beach. Setting up the tents was a mission though coz of the sea/land breezes. Now if the vid is not too clear I’ll describe some bits… I snuck away to the cliff to take in the scenery. This dude walking on the pebble beach way down there. I can hear each stride as he makes his mark on the beach. After a while there is a long line from one end till the other of only his set of footprints. But check this one… he’d stopped with a map in his hand and he was studying a cliff. At least thats what it looked like… I can’t make sense of that?!?!? Then this paraglider passes us so close man. After a while I notice him just jumping off the cliff on one end and then coming back in like he was stitching the cliffs. And then these seabirds fly past real close… it was all too trippy man! Felt kinda dizzy… didn’t know if it was the highness or the food but had to get to my recovery position a bit too early in the trip lol. And I don’t know if Sag is pranking me or not but he was like I vanished for more than 2 hours. He finally got me and my insides were burning up man. Even drinking water felt a bit like acid. Acidity, heartburn, food poisioning, all those chillies… whatever it was, it wasn’t going away… till Sag hooked me up. Roochi had hooked up some koroga style chicken which was amazing even thought I only managed a lil bite. Something about fires and we had a couple of pyromaniacs in the crew. Go to sleep and in the middle of the night it rained down like mad!

2/05/2010 Sunday – We had so much food so mostly it was cooking cooking and cooking. Hash browns, bacon. Sag sorted out some scramble and pancetta. That was entertaining. Oh and big up Priya for the hotchocolate with Bailey’s. Sheetal, Sacho, Roochi and Neil take refuge in Sach’s tent and with the little window they turn into the X-Factor judges. I did the raps, Priya did the singing and Neil did the … well whatever he did he won lol. In the mean time Nishil had set up the other tent’s lounge into a games room so the party moved here. An attempt to play Risk didn’t work out so we ended up playing Twister. And playing it on an air bed was even more interesting. Helped my back but I’ll come to that in a bit. Everyone takes a break, play some cards and it’s off to do some fishing. Sach and Sacho said they’ll go the shorter and harder way… we took the longer way and end up seeing them still at the top of the cliff. Kill time till they come by playing fill the hoodies up with stones without the wearer knowing it. Or hoodie stone poker… Nish was competition coz he got some big ones in a couple of hoods. Lol that was fun. Got a few in Nish’s wine too. Walking on a pebble beach uphill is another workout man. So yeah these guys sort out their rods and bait, etc. Some of us head back… going back up those hills with so layers on, I had to take a few breaks. Get to our camp and Roochi’s reading gave me an idea. So take one of the chairs to the cliff, watch the sunset and this amazing view where the water had the silver lining in the horizon man… hope the mobile pic comes out right. Get my read on till the winds stiffened my fingers too much to turn pages. Rest and get some more me time in the sleeping bag. It was like a camping version of my Sunday routine at the gym. Mild cardio walking down the cliffs, leg workout coming up, read on the exercycle and check out what on the screens (in this case the lovely horizon), yoga (twister on air bed) and steam/sauna (breathing in my sleeping bag lol).

Something about Neil and the pizza jiko. Can’t remember. Sacho hooked up the wings Roochi prepared. Just like how moms used to make em… I think I know who I’m gonna marry ;o) Big up Shalin and Priya for hooking up the pizza’s, I was on the other jiko trying to sort out the garlic bread. Hell they even came up with a banana and chocolate pizza… too bad we ran out of marshmallows. Kinda remember confiding in Sheetal how she reminds me of my best friend and how I miss her coz I don’t get to chill with her since she got married. Music, dance, eat, jokes, sound fx lol. By now we were drunk and tired and ready to sleep but Sach and I was worried about leaving Neil alone with the fire so Sach took it away from the camp. I was still worried coz it was closest to me in the tent but Nish woke up by then. And I thought I was a pyromaniac.

3/05/2010 Monday – Hangover! Pack. I was kinda heartbroken and how much we wasted but like I said… hangover. Shower help that situation out a bit. Ferry, pics, sleep while Sag drives. Get to Sag’s, Naruto Shippuden Movie 3. Over to Shalin, pick drops, Sach’s, pick drops. Finish watching Naruto Shippuden Movie and as I realise my ‘will of fire’ the movie site ends up downloading wrong things on the work comp. Which reminds me… new episode is out so see you next week!