Sunday 8th February Today we decided to hire a taxi for the day, to see the sights of Mumbai. The journey did not get off to a good start as the taxi kept stalling and the driver had great problems getting it started again. We got to the gateway of India and the Taj hotel and the taxi refused to start again so Robin and a couple of other taxi drivers ended up pushing the taxi to try and bump start it, it failed miserably so we ditched the driver and his taxi a...

Saturday 31st January we finally arrived in Goa at about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, we got a taxi from the station which cost about £4 to the hotel, which is about 15km (10 miles).Our hotel was very nice, with a pool. We had a stroll down to the beach via the town and dipped our toes in the Arabian sea for the first time. We could not believe how many people were on the beach. even though it was the weekend, the whole water line was full of people.The sand wa...

Sunday 25th January Up early again this morning picked up guide and went to Amber palace.We walked up to the palace although there was the option to go up on an elephant.The palace was quite high up and surrounded by a wall all around on the hills.Behind the palace was the Amber city, where the houses that were once occupied by tradesmen had been left to rack and ruin, when the Maharajah abandoned the city and moved to a new palace, in now what is the city of Ja...

Friday 23-01-2009 Got up early this morning, had chick pea and curd curry for breakfast, then left for Agra about 9 o'clock. It took a long time to get out of Delhi, as the traffic was so bad at that time in the morning.The journey to Agra took about 4 bumpy/scary hour's drive.We stopped for coffee halfway there and saw our first snake charmer. We finally arrived at a lovely tranquil palace just outside Agra, a beautiful palace with gardens to walk in, with dee...

Wednesday 21-01-2009 Arrived in Delhi 10.30 in the morning, warm but misty.We were met by the hotel driver at the airport, making life a bit easier although the airport was not as bad as we had read about.The journey from the airport to the hotel was an adventure.There appears to be no rules to driving here, they don't give way and are constantly blowing their horns at each other, the one who blows the horn first seems to have right of way.After checking in we w...