Today we met Eve's daughter Darielle and her boyfriend Bryan. They had just arrived from the USA and we weren't sure what to expect. Eve described Darielle as her most spoilt child! In fact Darielle looks a lot like her Dad and speaks with an American accent and although she has obviously been brought up with money she is realistic about it. She seems to have more business sense than her Mum and it's nice to have someone more our age around again. Bryan is very s...

Last night we went back to the first temple again to try and get another look at Lackshmee the Elephant but no luck. They said if we wanted to watch hr having her morning bath to meet them at the river at 6.30am, we weren't sure we'd be up then as tonight we are sleeping on the bus again, and we weren't. We settled for having dinner in a cheap and nice diner last night and did some bartering on the market for some lovely little statues. Back in our room we made a...

Tonight we go to Hampi. The night bus was meant to be leaving at 8pm and arriving at 6am. We actually left on time! Our 'cabin' was at the very back of the bus and consisted of two chairs that laid right back and made beds and a curtain around us. We only took one small rucksack so that stayed with us. Pooja had made us a packed lunch, well she had ordered it from the kitchen any way. It consisted of Pooja pakoras, onion bagees and spring rolls. It was all packed...

Today the hotel is nearly empty, only 10 rooms have guests in so we are trying to get some maintenance work done. This is not proving to be easy even though Eve arrived today, the painters haven't been paid yet and have done (badly) several rooms and the restaurant already so are basically striking until they get some money, I guess they think we won't pay them anything if they don't do this, which seems like it's not too unreasonable considering the credit we se...

This week I have mostly been folding bed sheets! We were sadly to discover that Yvonne's parting shot was to break the dials on both washing machines which added to her day of not washing and being chucked out Sunday put us 2 and a half days behind on laundry - or for a more graphic picture, literally an entire guest room floor to ceiling with dirty sheets, towels and pillowcases! I took us until Saturday to catch up and Vincent and I must have clocked up about 2...