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Round the World in 180 Days
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Friday, 4 January 2008

First stop Mumbai


Flight to India was great. We were upgraded to business class (thanks James!) - bed seats, fine wines, champagne, free socks! So we weren't quite ready for the mayhem in Mumbai. A scary taxi ride got us to the hotel - apparently beeping helps squeeze the car through gaps and around pedestrians, goats and cows.
Hotel is ok - basic, noisy, but could be worse.

Fi and Paul are also staying at the hotel (in a nice air conditioned room - dammit), and we've spent a great couple of days exploring, we've seen the cave temples at Elephanta Island, the Prince of Wales museum, and practiced bargaining at markets. Kate's already spending.
We've got a couple more days here, before our long train journey north, but Fi and Paul are leaving today - not sure what we'll do without them!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Oooh..business class eh? Sounds good - you'll have to give us your top tips :-)

Glad you got there safely, and enjoy the rest of Mumbai!

Anonymous said...

Loving the whole business class. got sent the pics of u n paul n your backpacks - u look very cool lol really glad u arrived safely. hope your having a really good time and the goats and chickens behave themselves on the train haha xxxx

Anonymous said...

Well done on getting up graded to Business - just like me on the flight back from Singapore. However, your'll find it difficult to fly economy now!

Enjoy the train ride!