25/03/2011 Guy at hotel was trying to charge me for two nights as I stayed from 5am until 11am the next day, threatening to call the police because I wouldn't pay so I gave him another 100 and told him he shouldn't even have that. He moaned and told me that it wasn't good business but he had definitely squeezed some out of me! But after going to the train station and finding that I couldn't get a train until the evening, I had to go back and give him a further ...

24/03/2011 Arrived in Ahmedabad around 5am after a 9-hour train. Got robbed at the station with a 56-rupee tuctuc (should be no more than 20 but I was treated with a 'night charge') to take me Hotel Cadillac. The place sounded ok for 200 rupees-a-night, but I had officially hit real India. For this price (under 3 quid), I had a terrible hard, filthy-sheeted bed and dirty cushion for a pillow, dozens of old, deteriorating duvets all piled on a bed behind me and ...