Spikey Fruits!
Two breakdowns, one tyre change and a long dusty wait later, my friends and i ended up in a small village bus station. We weren't dressed appropriately (as, usually, the small villiages are very much Muslim and not used to western styles of dress) and an easy target for the men hanging around.As we were sitting with the bags, one of the men came up to my friend Juian and asked him to open a fruit for him - it looked like a big nut, with an opening in it - so Jules (being the nice guy he is) puts his thumbs in the hole and tries to prise it open. Only to find that the inside if the shell was a fur of cactus-like spines! Not good.So, just a word of warning; if any one asks you to open a starnge looking fruit for them, don't.We laugh about it now, but at the time, Jules had quite a job trying to tweezer the tiny spines out of his thumbs!
