Day 44 - 46 Things have picked up! Thank the Lord. We decided to visit a children's charity which proved a huge success. Maybe that is where we have been going wrong recently - too much of a self centered long holiday. It was good to feel 'back at work' in some capacity. We visited Ladli - which means loved girl in Hindi - a project that rescues abused and neglected street girls and saves them from prostitution. Some are as young as 5 or 6. We were given ...

Day 40 - 44 Bored to tears. Have had the dullest 3 days of my life. Shortly after arriving in Jaipur, Rufus took ill. I tolerated it politely for the first few hours - and he really was unwell, fever, squirts, stomach pain - and then I got impatient. By day 3 I was climbing the walls. It's not that I feel unsafe being in India alone with the children, but it is not a place I want to wander about in. I realised just how much I depend on him and how little I...

Day 36 - 38 Spent a final day in Jodhpur, dying my hair chocolate brown and having a lovely meal before catching the 10.30pm train to our next destination, Jaipur - the pink city. We ordered too much food as usual but rather than send it back, we got it packaged up and decided to give it to the people living on the roundabout outside the restaurant. I had read only that day that the price of food in India is so much on the increase, many working families can no...