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...

Day 32 - 36 Pottered around our guest house this week which has become more European by the minute, due to the influx of French students. En masse, they goad us with their beautiful Gallic bodies, soft accents, propensity to smoke, tactile tendencies and mild arrogance. We feel slightly marginalised and maturely sit a few feet away from them, b****ing. The monsoon has arrived which brings a couple of hours heavy rain a day, leaving the place cool afterwards....

Day 28 -31 So Delhi belly has struck me with frightening ferocity. I don't think I have felt so unwell since the hangover after my leaving do. This was truly shocking - fever, aching bones, vomiting, constant nausea, weakness, disorientation, and of course - diarrhoea which resembled nothing I have ever seen before. And even hallucinations - at one point I thought I was stuck in the desert in India with two small children! The first night was the worst, and d...

Day 24 - 28 Headed off to Jaisalmer. We had left it too late to get the train, I refused to get a bus (see earlier blog) so we resorted to private driver again. Unfortunately the grumpiest Indian ever arrived and drove the five hours in third gear with a scowl. Everytime we turned the aircon up, he turned it down. Arse. We did smile sweetly when Clover vomited all over his front seat. Sadly, being the kind of ridiculous man who leaves plastic covers over hi...

Day 21 Clover's 7th birthday! We decided to celebrate by spending the day at 'Funworld - Where You Can Express Your Feelings!'. It is billed as Jodhpur's answer to Alton Towers. Unfortunately, it was absolutely awful. Rufus and I spent the day thinking up alternative taglines such as 'Funworld - A Spectacular Misnomer!' and 'Funworld - a series of bio and trip hazards with an entry fee!'. 'Funworld - A risk assessor's wet dream!' We should have realised whe...