Day 5 or 6?!?

So this is my first update since i left packing in london, quick update on what has happened so far.
1. flew over, we had an empty plane into mumbia so had three seats each to spread out on and a nice chicken tikia to tuck into (BA getting us into the mood)
2. got to the hotel in mumbia at around 2am, faily nice, considering you pass hurrendous poverty on the way out of the airport, so you are glad with getting a bed and AC. have to say the down side to mumbia is the smell, i got around this by taking a vicks nasale spray with me and use it whenever there is a human pong in the air, (i recomend it to anyone travelling!!)
3. met up with our guide/ driver and head of mens wear from provouge (whome i have forgotton their names) and they took us for a tour around the city visiting Gate of india, taj hotel, victoria station (not the one in london), prince of wales museam, hanging gardens, and general parts of the city.
then we went out for dinner with Monil (head of property at prozone) and Nikial (provouge/zone) then took us to china grill in the hyatt hotel, I'm glad i visited the cream of the party crowd in mumbia because it gave me a good contrast between the real rest of india and the new western clubbing scean of india, we ate pizza at 3:00am and went back to the airport to catch our 5:40am flight to Udipour.

Udipour was amazing the palaces on the lakes and the introduction to real india was spectacular and fastinating. we met a lovely pair of newlyweds of their honeymoon from UK (living in OZ now), Racheal and Rick, we got on very well and went out for dinner together at an amazing resturant in the old part of town over looking the lakes and palces, above us were chipmonks, owls and bats. we hope to meet up with R&R in leh.

Arrived in Jaipor yesterday after taking a night train from udipor, what an expirence!! the plus side was we met three pretty dutch girls on the platform and relised we were in the same carriage unfortuntaly they were in the first class bit and we were in the 2nd class bit, so they shut their door and we saw no more of them! instead we had three fat indian blokes sleeping around us, who i swear did not stop farting all the way across the rajistan deasert (thats where the good old Vic's spray comes in!!)

Dr Arun our guide in jaipor ex-cheese maker and now professional tourist guide and historian has today shown us the palace on top of the hill (sorry i cant remember a lot of the names) but is one if not the most spectatlur buildings i'v ever seen, reminds me of an Indiana Jones scean, we walked around in the scortching heat and listened to his stories of the place, we got up their by elephant, which was good if not a bit touristy, mostly european and Japanese (G5 countires) around us.
I asked lots of questions, because jamie did not ask one!! his contribution was a huh / euh when we entered a secreat escape tunnel for the king and there were 100 bats above us.
this afternoon we visited the inner city palace and observitory another amazing place. i have lots of postcard and two books for anyone interested, the observitory was very cool like something out of star trek (an eutopuian world it reminded me of)

we leave tomorrow at 5:00am to catch the train to Agra to meet with the Majaraga of Battersea aka (dad) to go see the Taj Mahal, and visit the Taj Mahal coffee shop.

love to you all
ollie (jamie is upstairs in the air-con room, with a beer and cricket)