You guessed it, its raining here and it hasn’t let up since we arrived.  It’s strange coming from 40 degreed in Cairo to a wet and damp Mumbai.  We changed our hotel/hostel today and it’s not much better, I guess that’s the standard of cheap accommodation here.

Our new lodgings are reasonable and a short distance from the city centre, but stink of dampness.  We have been soaked several times having walked around parts of the city.  We went to a cool bar today and had a few beers and met a few other travellers.  Sorry, for the lack of photos so far, we haven’t taken our camera with us.  Having spent some time in this area, we feel a lot safer and the hotel staff are very accommodating.   

We were awoken at some godly hour last night by the police knocking on our door. Because of the recent bombings, which I’m sure you’ve heard about, they were searching every hotel in the area.  They were quite pleasant and only wanted to see our passports.

We were going to visit Elephant island today but, with the rain so bad, decided to give it a miss. In fact, there is not a lot to do here in Mumbai in the rain, so we are thinking we might head straight up to Delhi on Tuesday where the weather is somewhat better.  We probably won’t post for a few days as we’ll be on a train for 17–28 hrs and we have to visit an internet cafe to upload – this hotel falsely advertised and internet connection.

A picture to show you just how bad the rain is and us using the room facilities as a laundry service :-)  We are really struggling to keep our clothes dry.