One of our new indian friends, Bilal, coined the quote above. It's a good one.
On arriving to our destination last night 1.5 hrs late, we were met by a fellow from the hotel we called and they took us to a pretty bad hotel, but at only 250rs (less than $100) it's not really surprising. We moved hotels today (ahhhh, much better) and spent the day going to the rat temple, where people worship and feed thousands of holy rats, (Kanimata.com). God forbid we step on one of them! And to the Bikaner fort, Junagarh. Had a lovely day.
Bikaner is in the middle of the Thar desert in Rajasthan. It's quite incredible. Looking out of the window on the train from Delhi to Bikaner yesterday, the environment changed so amazingly. From the very populated outskirts of Delhi to the open fields with camels dragging heavily laden carts, to Marble Mines and people doing shits on the train tracks next to us, the desert surrounding bikaner seems to be the most different to anything I've ever seen before. It's not like a sand dune sea, but a shifting dune/low scrub desert. I certainly wouldnt like to be stuck out there by myself though!
The train trip yestrerday proved to be quite incredible. We were in 3aC class, the third best air conditioned class. It was good! The air conditioning proved quite cold and the berths that Tom and I were in were very comfy. I recommend this class if you're ever in india. Meanwhile, i wonder what the first class looks like!!!
We are currently sitting waiting for a man to download our photos to CD and it looks ike it's gonna take forever! But that hopefully means we're gonna have some photos soon to upload.
Anyway, love to you all. Take it easy!
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Dear Tom & Karen
Sounds like you are having a great time, you lucky things. We took Imo to Bristol yesterday. She has a lovely room in a beautiful Georgian terrace, close to Union and a short walk to lots of lovely shops. She also has transferred her job to a pub very close by so all is good. She also got VERY drunk the first night!! I'm sure she'll be in touch soon.
Merry & Johnny
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