We set the alarm for 04:30 as three different people we asked told us three different times of arrival in Jaipur, and we wanted to make sure we were ready to jump off at a moments notice. At 04:50 we arrived and "set up shop" in the waiting room, after some bad planning as we were no longer staying in Jaipur we waited around for our next train to Ajmer in 6 hours. First impressions of Jaipur we as most cities in India seem to be, dirty, cramped, smelly,...

Left the Hotel Paradise at 9am, and Tom's only link to the Ashes, but had to hang around until 17:00 when we were catching the sleeper train to Jaipur. Originally the plan was now to stay in Jaipur for two nights, unfortunately after being advised by the majority of people we thought it was best not stay. Instead we decided to take the long route to Pushkar. This would mean another 2.5 hour train tomorrow, bad news. We decided it would be best to hop around caf...

We were in bed early last night and had to go without any tea! We were just setting off out when the power went again, this was nothing to worry about as we were now used to this happening on a daily basis. We set off back for the torch when lightning lit the sky and suddenly the wind really picked up. We sat in our room, (mainly because Rachael was terrified we would get knocked out by a flying cow if we went back outside.) Eventually after a couple of hours the...

Thankfully managed to move out of the horrible sweat pit known as "The Ranuka Hotel" and took the ten minute walk into the fort where our new hotel lives. Wow, this place is special. Really nice, nice staff and if Tom gets his way he might even watch some Ashes in the coming days. Didn't do much during the day as it was just too hot! It's been mid 40 degrees for at least 3 days now. At about 18.00 and after our 8th shower of the day we set of out for a few drin...

The train journey was okay considering the state we were both in. The guys from the hotel we had pre booked a couple of days earlier picked us up from the station and took us back. It was still really early we we dived into bed for a few more hours sleep.The hotel was okay but we we decided it would be worth wandering round the town to see what else was available for the following three nights. We spent a couple of hours looking round some doggy hotels but eventu...