For our last night we headed to Hungry eyes once again for a Muglai feast and a million or so beers. Had a great night with the owner Dodi, discussing Indian culture, Goa, Bollywood stars as well as the MTV awards until about 2am which would have been fine but we had to get a cab at 4am to catch our flight to Mumbai. As you can imagine we were somewhat worse for wear (an understatement) and barely could keep our eyes open which didn’t make for a productive trip to the Chinese Visa Application Centre where the attendant laughed at us when we produced the documentation for our application. Not realising we needed to give them all the info about us including our waist sizes and whether Jase dresses to the left or right - we went back to the hotel to catch up on some sleep, movies and internet and so we could recover and get the application ready for tomorrow.
Next morning, up bright and early in our $50 a night hostel (!!!) we went to the Visa centre again to submit our application just hoping we had everything. That afternoon, we decided to have another R&R day and then met the 2 Germans girls who travelled with us from Hampi to Hospet in the taxi for dinner and a few drinks. We met them at Leopold’s bar which is a very old (1875) a famous bar for the Pakistani attacks in 2008 and even had bullet hole marks and a hole in the floor where a grenade went off. We had a great last night in Mumbai and slightly hung-over the next day went back to the Chinese Visa place (for the third time)to pick up our visas. No surprises that the security staff recognised us... when we got our passports back even the attendant who laughed at us the first day, came out to “congratulate” us for getting it! Anyway following our tradition of not seeing Mumbai we opted to go to the movies instead of going to Elephant caves and watch the new Karate Kid. I think we were one of the first in India to watch it... weren't we lucky! After that we made it to the airport to head out to Dubai and see Uncle Toppy.
