Due to the ankle today I mostly sat on the bed with my foot on pillows. We phoned Ivor to see how the train tickets were coming along but he didn't even seem to know he was meant to e getting them! We decided to be proactive and went online to buy the tickets ourselves. After a bit of consideration we decided that although the flights were more expensive 1 hour on the plane was better than 13 on the sleeper train.We did our packing and sorted out the bills for ho...

Again as we were just waiting for the call from Ivor saying we had tickets to Goa, we spent most of the day relaxing and enjoying the atmosphere. My saris were ready for collection at 8pm so we just waited for then to go to Churchgate on the train and pick them up. There was some confusion about if they were going to be ready but as we could be called to Goa at any time we insisted they be done and although we had to wait around in the shop for a while we didn't ...

Today most of the day was spent recovering from the night before! We were tired from dancing and didn't get home until 3.30 am this morning. For dinner we decided to go down to Churchgate with the boys in a taxi which was a bad idea, it cost more than the train (train 7 rupees per person, taxi 300 rupees!) We were going to go to Leopold's for dinner as it is in the book Shantaram that we are still reading and the boys wanted to go to the place we went last night,...

Today we planned to go out clubbing with Mark and Michael the other English people in the hotel. We might not be in Mumbai much longer and they wanted to show us a restaurant they liked and I fancied a club called Polly Esther's, it said the bar staff all wore afro wigs and the music was 70s and 80s. During the day we needed to pop into Bandra, Vincent's shoes were uncomfortable and leaking, we'd spotted some he liked the other day near Croma Mall and as we had t...

More rain today. I tell you what, I will tell you when it stops as all these start with the weather (how British of me). Anyway today the waiting game paid off as I got the problems with the visa resolved, after a chat between "sir" and me. He said if we couldn't do it any different way he said he would be my employer so he could give me the letter for the visa to be changed, he said this would not be a problem. Armed with this info I rang Eve form the ...