Day 6 – Sunday 26th April

Today was our rest day and it started at about 9am with a call from Mark to see if I was awake!

Unfortunately the young Indian lady (quite a character) who had asked if she could ‘steal some of our time’ (in those exact words) for a radio interview in the morning did not contact Mark so we asked for a driver and headed out for a day of sightseeing.

The video will show the sights better, but we saw the Taj Mahal hotel which is impressive in both size and style and also the gateway to India, also equally impressive.

We were invited to buy a wide variety of things (most legal, some illegal!) by street sellers as we moved amongst the sights. The legal souvenirs on offer included giant balloons (which I would have loved had it not been for the weight allowance of our luggage and the size of the overhead compartments of course), maps, postcards etc. Amongst the stranger things I personally was asked to buy (much to Marks amusement) was a crate of baby milk for a young girls baby sister. The tattoo of ‘Charity’ has now been removed from my forehead.

Anyway….. This was the first time we were in the heat for prolonged periods having become used to hopping from air conditioned car to air conditioned meeting rooms for the majority of the trip. So a break for an air conditioned lunch was appreciated before more sightseeing.

We then visited the main relaxing park in Mumbai (there aren’t many parks), marine walk which provides great views over the water of the Mumbai skyline and we then headed back to the hotel to chill out and have dinner at TGI Fridays and an early night.

Tomorrow we head off for Bangalore, which im told has far spicier Indian food then Mumbai – yum yum, my stomach is already rumbling (or perhaps griping?) at the prospect.

Au Revoir