We didn't get much sleep last night as the office next door had its phone ringing and TV blasting til late then again from 5am! I think we might move rooms. We met with Ivor and the boss, whose name is Dinky! Basically they don't have much of a plan or much of an idea what Europeans would like of a hotel. We will be given a pretty free reign so I hope to teach their house keeping how to clean and Vincent hopes to make the shabby bar/restaurant nice. We decided we...

Goa. Today we got on our very short haul flight, just time for them to serve lunch and stuff it down before we were landing! I managed to find Salman Rushtie's 'Midnights Children' at the airport which I have been looking for since we arrived. I was going to buy it in England to read over here where its set but as he was chucked out of the country I wasn't sure it would be a good thing to have in my bag - turns out they have most of his books here. We made friend...

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,...