Where to start? such a lot seems to have happened since we updated in this Agra.
Well firstly th train journey for Delhi to Agra and back was fab a really well run journey (mainly just for us tourists), we even pluckd up the courage to eat the free meal which was included in the price of the ticket for the return journey.
We had already found another hotel in Delhi to move to too which was far better than the first, spotlessly clean superb location for getting the trains (more on that later) and the metro to other areas of the city so we spent a couple of relatively chilled days in Dehli. Ate some really good food and had our first Thali which cost 40 rupees and was superb our whole meal including soft drinks and coffee cost less than 3 pounds (sorry no english sybmols on this keyboard) for both of us.
Saw loads of monkeys at new dehli railway station, goodness only Knows how they manage to live there amongst the sheer volume of people but we must seen about 30 on the roof. Then one evening as we walking across the platform bridge through about 2000 people there was a whole family just walking in the opposite direction across the same bridge!!!/
There are cows everywhere, too eating rubbish ( I am not eating any beef here!!) and cra**** everywhere!
On our final night in Dehli in our new hotel just as we were going to sleep we heard this starange noise coming from what sounded the bathroom. Despite there being no way into except through a solid wall I was convinced that there was someone in there. Eveytime Andy got back into bed it started again, I was by now very spooked and wanted hime to call reception. Eventually Andy discovered that we did in fact have an intruder- in the air conditioning duct A RAT!!. I was very relieved that that was all it was and after he convinced me that there was no way in I slept very peacefully!!/
Anyway we had had enough of Dehli after 4 nights and decided to head to Jaipur to see the "pink city" and all that. By the way if you are wondering it is not PINK it is muddy brown. We decided that the easiest way was by train even if that did mean getting up at 3am. But they are doing repairs at the major station in Dehli so we had to go to one just outside which was ok. We got there in plently of time and low and behold a train turned up at the time on our tickets- so we got on, the attendant was asleep and we could not find our seats. Seconds before it pulled away from the station he woke up and told us we wwere on the wrong train!!!!! We still don't know where it was going!!!
Now in Jaipur at a really lovely laid back small hotel, so going to hang around for a few days, Japuir iself is almost as mad as dehli but now have camels as well as cows, cats, dogs, monkeys and parrots.
Love to all
