The few days that followed resulted in doing the same routine. Catching the train into Mumbai and coming back to relax, away from the chaos that was Mumbai. Tom left after a day in Mumbai since he met a couple of chaps on the plain that had tickets to all of the cricket games and was off to meet them up North, 10 hours from Mumbai. I met loads of new people, since the hostel where I was staying was like a gateway of new and old travellers either just arriving or...

Mumbai airport was pretty large and we were put through quite quickly to our ever hopeful arrival of our luggage. The temperature was in it's high 20's and it was 0100, quite a climate change from rainy Jo'berg. We were thankfully picked up from the airport and taken through many back alleys until we made it to our accommodation. We were asked to take off our shoes and fill out a huge form stating our details, purpose of visit, passport details, visa details, a...

We landed early morning and had arranged a pick up for our arrival. We eventually were found by our slightly mental host in his red van. After sleeping until the mid afternoon we headed out in search of an Irish pun near by which will apparently be showing the various football and more importantly, rugby games being played that night. Stormers defeated last years super 14 winners the Bulls, but England let down by loosing to Ireland, although still winning the ...

Our lay day in Cape Town was again a sad one. We had to say goodbye not only to Thea with our early morning chats over tea, amazing food, great company and homely welcomes, but to everyone else we had met. I shall miss Thea a lot and will hopefully see her in England next year. Maureen and Christo had been just great to us. They would pick us up and take us to shopping centres for a walk and an ice cream, followed after by a stunning food and friendly chats. Th...

Today we were meant to be flying to India.... Due to the Indian consulate in Cape Town only being able to offer advice on acquiring a visa until May when they will be able to issue them directly, we had to apply to Johannesburg. This takes 7 working days to process and we discovered this 7 working days before we flew, which would have been a risk. We therefore extended our flights to the 19th, and thankfully Thea didn't mind us staying a tad longer. I was happy...