Monday 14 December The sheet creeps in the night. I don't want to worry about it, just sleep. We awake to the alarm. Ah! It's 8 and we are supposed to be at breakfast! We are about 15 min late. oh well. We still make it second. We are waited on by a group of hovering men. After we finish we get a run down of our visit here. Today is a free day with a guided bike tour in the afternoon. We relax until late morning, keeping warm in bed. We decide to check out the...

Sunday 13 December The hotel hallways are very echoey and there are ppl being very loud. At 1:30am Malcolm calls up to complain and also to ask for water, but ends up cancelling it. Sleep is very patchy after that. We learn later our guide called them up 3 times. But it seems nothing was done. Some shushing was done too by another in our group. I felt ok asleep, but when I get up I feel rotten. We leave just before 5am. The roads are pretty chaotic even at this...

Saturday 12 December It's just a quiet day. Malcolm still feels awful so he rests and I read. The most interesting thing was a monkey walking by on our balcony! At first in thought it was a cat or dog, but we are two stories up! The guide comes to check on us a few times. In the afternoon we go and get some money exchanged, and Malcolm rests again when we get back. In the evening we have drinks and dinner with the Aussie couple before retiring to our room. We...

Friday 11 December The train trip keeps going and going! I thought it was supposed to be about 12 hours. But it's more like 15. It's about 12:30 by the time we get off and into tok tok's. At the hotel our rooms are not ready so we go have lunch. I do not feel like food at all. But it tastes alright. In our room we have pathetic, but warm showers. Soon it's 3pm and we are off through the city. The noise and craziness of the roads is not fun. Apparently the presid...

Thursday 10 December How Mosquitos get into a shut room I'm not sure. And they are huge! We get up and ready before 6 am so we can leave for the Taj Mahal. They have blocked the petrol and like motors and factories for about 1 km to try and help with the smog and pollution around the Taj. We take the bus, then an electric golf cart thingy. It's dark when we get in line and it slowly lightens up. Once through security we hurry to the first platform in order to g...