Well this is the one you've all been waiting for im sure...the Taj Mahal visit. again no photos but soon soon i promise.

First of all i'll tell you from where i left off, Left Jaipur for Agra had breakfast of scrambled egg (not poached i don't trust here as you can't beat my mothers poached egg) Drive stopped off to get a drink on the way and while we were sat in the car we were again hassled by lots of sellers, a weird necklace seller who looked so simple he probably couldnt count to 5...in indian!! and a women who char was chatting to reluctantly, char kept calling her lovey so i assumed it was a woman but nope it was a man... A ginger haired man (what else) came to the window and he had a monkey who climbed on my window i was freaking out but laughing aswell, the monkey reminded me of alex ferguson the way it was chewing its tongue like it was gum, took a picture then had to pay 10 rupees for camera rights haha. As i was saying about the driver in my other blog he doesnt understand all of english so when i pointed at a building and said thats thin he replied...no elephants...ok i'll let him have that one...then i asked where the number plate HR comes from on the car in front ..ours was DE as in Delhi he then told me it was a ford...i gave up in the end!

Got to Agra and the room was really nice saw a maccie d's down the road and headed there had chicken nugget meal for 1.25 and mini brownie sundae for bout 50p so we were happy...later on we were told by our driver the chef at the hotel was ill so we had to go somewhere else to eat which kind of relieved me as if the chef can get a stomach bug whats stopping us from getting it. As i was sat next to drive he let out a yeah i dont even know why i write this anymore you guys know whats going to happen....i was sat so close to him again it was embarrassing char excused herself and went outside where all i could hear was her cackling which didnt help me at all so i had to wait for drive to say something that could be kinda construed as funny before i could laugh...and to be honest all he said was women arent allowed to read newpapers in india so it wasnt very funny...no wonder he looked at me so weird when i was giggling! Drive took us to this very expensive restaurant which was way out of our price range but we couldnt really get up and leave so just stuck at it. Were amused by the toilet signs, Laddis and Jants and even drive got confused as we stopped him before he went in to the ladies. notice how i'm calling him drive? still dont know his name, char thinks his surname is goswami but as i keep trying to explain to her thts some sort of title he has. i just looked it up on wiki to see, have to try and stop char calling him mr goswami!

Got up for Taj Mahal at like half 5 and met drive and the guide in the lobby of hotel at half 6. We were off to see one of the 7 wonders of the world, picked up our beautiful shoe covers (red of all colours to choose) and a free bottle of water...i nearly wrote wine then why is it when i start writing a bottle of the next word is usually wine! Paid our 750 rupees and headed off on a rickshaw which the couple in it really didnt want to share with us, they seemed nice enough in the end though. The whole ground was symmettrical and massive and there are 4 entrances, we entered through the east gate and it was a beautiful view, breathtaking and looked just like a postcard, Had pictures taken by a scheming money grabber, were told 100 rupees each and he took 3 so assumed we could choose but nope it doenst work that way here apparently so had to pay 300 rupees, which was depressing as i only liked one of the pics. He tried to get us to pay for 2 other pics of the Taj aswel but we soon told him where to go. Our guide liked embarrassing us by making us take stupid funny pics, and esp took a shine to char, as you'll see from one of her pics where it looks like she is trying to take one of the taj mahals towers into her mouth!! disturbing but not shocking haha, it was incredible though, the taj mahal not chars wide mouth! Headed home for breakfast and then drive took us to another stupid shop where we didnt buy anything. Everytime we stopped in the car children would run over to the windows at one point i think we had like 6 kids surrounding us and because we re told to ignore me and char couldnt stop giggling and trying to avoid their eyes....sunglasses are a god send!

On the way back to Delhi we had a motorbike go in the side of the car and i saw two dead dogs :( so not a great trip back, but who cares we were going to Goa the following day.....that is the next chapter though my fine friends... xxxxxx