Manali is quiet

There are few people here... The hotel owners blame the floods in a completely unrelated part of north India for scaring off the tourists. I managed to keep silent and not mention that the gang rapes might also have had something to do with it. It's strange, it's a beautiful place surrounded by mountains and valleys, and the weather is perfect. Sadly this means that the beggar menace now outnumbers worthwhile uses of carbon. No I haven't joined the rich and started to hate the poor, the beggars you see in India are more often profiteering potential medical experiment subjects in my future totalitarian world... but that is another daydream