Sun, 27th Feb, 2005

Hi again,

india continues to amaze, enthrall and bemuse us!

Hope you are all well. today we got up at 5 and caught the 6.10 train to Jaipur, the city near to the farm we're going to. Binod the farmer has a friend who owns a guest house, and suggested we stay there before going to the farm. We were planning to stay one night here and go tomorrow, but we've decided to stay 3 nights.
Well, Delhi was an amazing place. I loved it very much but it was wise to get outta there after the 3 days. It is indescribably hectic, and the constant barrage of hassle and traffic and pollution got to us a bit! we still had a great time there, tho, and have vowed to return, this time knowing what we're letting ourselves in for!
On the train this morning we got chatting to a woman who was sitting next to us (the conversation suddenly began when I jumped at the sight of a mouse running past my foot, down the side of the carriage......!!!!!!!). She was lovely and very interesting to talk to - she's a lawyer, working in the interests of women who need legal representation, and one past job of hers was presenting the breakfast show on Delhi's biggest local radio station. She'd launched the careers of 2 or 3 national pop stars by playing their demo tapes on her show! Anyway, she gave us her business card and said to call her when we get back to Delhi and we can go out for dinner. Aah, the people you meet!

(Note to Lady badwill and Leonieonieonie........I have now seen a shop named "Boney Tours and travels" and a restaurant called "Kathi Kebab"!!!!!! I did larf!!!!!!!)

The hotel we're in in Jaipur is real nice, with a big airy room with windows on 2 sides and a bathroom en suite. We've mainly been resting since we got here tho we did pound the streets with a map to find a particular restaurant that our guidebook recommended.....then more resting, as Rob has had a dodgy tum today. So here I am, looking parTICularly chic and crropped trousers and red knee-socks!!! (to ward off the bloody mozzies - not a sign of any in Delhi, but a baptism of fire here to make up for it!) typing away and feeling like I'm really travelling now that we have Delhi under our belt and are on to destination #2. No Delhi belly for me, we did branch out and have some real street food from a stall, which was fantastic, and cost Rs.40 for both of us (1 quid = 70 rupees).

OH, I could go on for pages! But anyway, we are both fine, bit of colour to our pasty English faces............it's great!!!!!