Day 9 – Wednesday 29th April

So here we are, our last day in India. I woke up at a pleasant 10am thanks to Mark banging on the door. The reason for the oversleeping this morning was a long conversation on skype last night which was followed by me watching the Chelsea versus Barcelona match until 2am. It was ok though as this was our final day and we had a well earned rest day to end the trip.

Following Marks door banging, I legged it down to the restaurant in time to have breakfast and then after grabbing my things from the room, joined Mark by the pool for some R&R for a couple of hours. We both sat and read, Ipods in, totally chilling, with spells in the pool when the heat was getting to intense (every 15 minutes!).
Before going to the pool I covered myself in suntan lotion, but judging by the red patches on me now I must have done my usual trick of splashing lotion quickly and missing areas (I now have red areas on my chest, upper arm and just above the knee!). Ah well!

After a quick shower following the pool we were picked up by santosh at around 2pm. He took us to do some sightseeing. We saw the State court building, parliament building, a huge public park and an aquarium. All very impressive and we both got some great photos. We then went for some food – Mark and Santosh went for some Indian dish but I played it safe and got a subway due to visions of spending nine hours in an aeroplane toilet tomorrow!

The place we had our food was a mall owned by the owner of kingfisher airline and beer, its fair to say we were impressed. It was fantastic, the interior was incredible for a mall and Mark described it as like a palace (I cant remember the exact word he used). The amazing thing was though that it was full of all the global designer names you can think of (including rolex, apple, louis vuitton etc) but it was empty! So how they are making any money we could not figure out.
From the palace mall we went to some markets to complete our shopping and then headed back to the hotel feeling pretty tired.

After a quick dropping of backs, myself and Mark went to enjoy our daily free drinks, which were as pleasant as usual and then retired to our rooms for the night so im here typing this final blog entry. I have packed my bags, and plan to have a quick nap before waking at 12.15 to watch the mighty Manchester united (yes Mick I did say MIGHTY!) play Arsenal. I figured that the game will finish at around 2am and we have to be downstairs at 3.45am to pay the bill and leave at 4am for the airport, so I will stay awake.

Well, that’s it for this blog, its been a pleasure writing and filming for you. I hope its been informative and at least mildly interesting!!!

Talk to you again soon!!!