Hotel Nalanda Mumbai (Bombay)

... had cappacino with scrambled eggs and toast.

After breakfast we wandered around the market a bit, bought some fruit and headed into town.
It is really difficult to describe the traffic. Fortunately rush hour was long gone, but it still took about an hour to go about 10 miles. We were in a nice, air conditioned SUV with an excellent driver. The four lane highway does have dividing markings, but they seem to be a mear ...

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... can enter the hotel, after a number of security levels have been passed outside. Inside, I was surprised how little security provision was in place! The reception area is quite lovely and a water feature and garden, seen through a huge plate glass window at the rear, was really striking, particularly as it contains a tribute to all those who lost their lives after the terrorist attack in Nov 08. After visiting the bookshop, I had a snoop around, going into ...

... work and was heavily patrolled by police so you weren't allowed right up to it. We didn't have time to go to Elephanta Island which is supposed to be nice, maybe some other time. Although very hot there was a nice cool breeze so we did a lot of walking around town visiting some of the main streets in the Colaba district whilst organising our travel plans. We walked up the Gandhi Road, nipped into the post office to pick up Nic's b'day cards, until we reached ...

... boasted nibbles from all over the world and a sweets counter to die for. The portions were small enough that you could easily take 7 desserts each and go back for more. It was hard not to feel guilty really after seeing so many poor people, but I guess we have to remember that we are tourists. We were there to sample as much of India as we could. And sure, this hotel was aimed at Westerners but that is also a part of the culture and of the ...

... it. Secondly we had to take it to the next man to check that we had completed the form correctly. Thirdly to the next guy to copy the details on the form into a register. Forth we gave the books to the packing guy the wrap it in cloth and sow it all together. Fifth after writing out the address the next guy seals the corners with a black substance resumbling tar. Sixth outside to the next guy who ...

... the first floor but, unsure if this is where we need to go, we make for the ticket booth nearby. We're pulled from the queue by a friendly gent who informs us that the tourist reservation office is closed for lunch and we're ushered to a nearby window and given forms to fill stating our onward journey details. This gent will kindly sort out our tickets in a nearby office round the corner and, like lost lambs, we warily follow. I'm keen to not be caught out so, I ask ...

... t the correct term, we were hounded and when we said no for the like sixth time, they would continue to follow us for a while... We went to one place while we were here: Elephanta Island. This was a nice little trip, where they put two Americans and a very lost looking sweaty Japanese man on a boat, and manage to make it float across a bay of toxic waste (the water stings when it hits... not really, but it nasty) until we ...

... for Tania. She has a Computing Science degree also and wants to continue what I've done. She's very sharp but is rusty at working in databases and hasn't learned MS Access as well as me. So I showed her how to do a bunch of things in Access. I went through a few big iterations (where I program something then Tania and I review it) and made a nice interface for the tougher parts of what Tania wanted. It's been kind of a neat challenge working on this database. I ...

... __________0*0*0*°_°____Ô OEÁ__ _ __ÁSince Shona had to visit the washrooms and the public ones were too dirty for her, Rupamasi decided to take her to Jaymama's office which was very nearby. I was thrilled, as I had not seen his office since 1982, the day when it was announced that Breznev had died. At that time I was there with MV. Jaymama was in the office, and he was not busy, eventhough he had only just returned from Disney World. I asked him ...