T^hought I would stop off for a couple of days R and R before I took on the trip through Malaysia. Needless to say it has rained pretty well incessantly since I got here.......so no tan time!! Also had the European\'s dream of maybe letting the flat out for six months of the year and going to sit on a tropical island. Foolish boy! So did everyone else by the look of things. This island looks like on entire building site with the only future lying in...

I don't know if it is the time or the heat but I may have already written this note so forgive me if it appears twice. I am about to leave for Mumbai airport to spend three hours waiting in the dark of the night for the 5 am plane to Bangkok so I thought I would just put a few thoughts down as I leave India. MUmbai is too difficult a city to explain in two or three lines but one of my lasting memories will be of the new skyscrapers emerging from the sklyline ...