Hi again thanks for all your messages, i got the jist of all of them DRINK PLENTY OF BOTTLED WATER, i get it and im doin it at least 3 litres a day!!!! and only had 4 beers since i left uk, and no cigs but i came close on mon, but didnt give in. Will try and answer questions first...

Ash, Ive posted u a parcel but it hasn't to be opened till i say. You will laugh at the state of it, they don't wrap things in paper or cardboard, they wrap it in a cloth and then sew it up (instead of sellotape) then put wax seals around it, it took me 2 1/2 hours to post a parcel and 7 postcards. You think the Royal mail is bad!!!

Clare,Callum and Stefan, I've got a photo of me on an elephant that I will send you?also some other things that you will like? I will get my photos put on to a cd and send u a copy of them. Then you will be able to see the camels, monkeys etc that i've seen.

Rach, dan, Chloe & lexi, Yes seen the victoria memorial, and the price of wales clock tower.and the bench when Diana had her photo took?infront of the Taj. Ive accomplished part one of the task in India and will send it to Rach to be verified

Macca, hi mate good 2 hear from u. I've no?intention of being anything else but good!. u should see the state of the men here, the camels are better lookin!!!

Back to what I've been up to: I  Went to see the Taj at sunset on sun eve it was really cool and I took some great photos even if I do say so myself!. My driver man Krishna took one of me ( all fall down in shock) in front of the back of it if that makes sense.

Mon morn up at the crack of dawn literally 5am, to see the sunrise over the Taj, only there wasn't actual sun only heat through the clouds, so bit of a waste of time, but hey at least I can say that I've done it :-)

mid morning was back to Smelly Dehli, to catch the overnight train to Varanassi, which is a holy city on the Ganges River. Got on the train only to find out that my bed had been double booked,(I offered to share, but he just looked at me in disgust!!!) no sense of humour some of these Indians. Anyway he went to get the Guard/ticket man, and told him that i was on his bed, the guard looked really pissed, bit then turned to me and said that he would up-grade me to !st class, so ended up with a sleeping compartment of my own and free food and drinks :-) The other guy had steam comin out of his ears, ha ha

I started talking to 3 girls from Baisingstoke at the hotel in agra, (it was nice to have someone to talk to whose seen the same things, and smelling the same things, and I aint the only one who says it stinks!) so I text them this mornin and have met up with them today in Varnassi, we had lunch at my hotel,(see I am eating!!) then went to watch a buddist ceremony on the banks of the Ganges, We went out in a boat and went to see the funeral pyres (look it up in the dictionary Em, Ash, Clare!!! ha ha) They go 24hrs aday (people are dying to get there,..joke ) Then we went to watch the ceremony, sitting in a rowing boat on the Ganges, it was quite surreal.

Then I came back and wrote all this to you lot :-) so now Im going for a beer then a shower and bed.

Love you all and miss you all loads, can't wait to hear what you've all been up to.

Gonna chill 2morro just touristy bit in mornin then back to the hotel and in the pool, so in ans to your other question every1 the hotels have been good but this one is great :-)

all my love XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX