My last couple of days in Mysore were spent relaxing and catching up on some reading but not before going to the races! Yep that's right I managed to find a race meeting that was on in Mysore, that's one experience I was not expecting here in India. It was a well organised affair with a couple of English jockeys riding too, in truth it was no different to a meeting back home, proper on-course bookies and also a tote option. Obviously I had a bet and inevitably I...

Hello to everybody, here's hoping the weekend brings you good things. So much has happened over the last 30 days that at times it seems I am in another world, I feel so privileged to be doing this. I Arrived in Mysore for my second last stop on my Indian adventure. It's a big city about the size of Brum, but their landmark is a palace rather than the Rotunda, I guess our palace in Brum is Villa Park. In a strange way Mysore and so much of India reminds me of ...