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 ...

You guessed it Rain, rain and more rain. Today was spent waiting. Waiting to here about my job in Goa, to hear about my visa to work, to chat to the owner of this hotel and the owner of the Goa hotel. So that's what we did. Got nowhere (they were on Indian time). The day was spent like this. Food shower lobby, food room lobby, room lobby food etc. The highlight of the day was going to the veg restaurant that we went to on the second day. We now fondly refer to it...

Today we spent another day waiting for a call. This time from Eve the lady from the Goa hotel. She said we should visit weds/thurs or thurs/fri and being Wednesday we needed to know if we were checking our stuff out. When Vincent rang her she was at the markets and said she'd ring back, so we decided to go to the famous Mumbai markets in case we aren't to be here much longer.We popped down to the train station and grabbed some 2nd class tickets along with another...

Today we just had to wait for the guys from Sutherland to call us back. We decided that it would be good to have a day of taking photos of some of the things we see every day. Its not easy here as the guide books all warn you that many Indians, especially the women, are superstitious about having their picture taken and can be quite offended - not that I particularly want to take pictures of them, but they are everywhere!Our plans were scuppered right from the st...