It's Life Jim but not as we know it!!

Me, Stu, Rog and Lorraine are staying at Jim's Jungle Retreat in the northeast of India. The journey by taxi from Delhi was long (7 hours) but it took 2 hours to get out of the Delhi! The usual mayhem on the roads on the way - truck, tractors, horse/oxen cart, motorbikes, bicycles, rickshaws, buses and strolling people. These all add to the flavour of the potholes and some dual-carriageway which seem to suddenly disappear into a dusty rutted track where all the transport vies for the best route through. We occasionally went through a village or town that always boasts a colourful market and has it's own particular theme of produce. One we passed had masses of vegetables for sale - much licking of lips as I'm having vegetable and salad withdrawal symptons! But having had the Delhi belly it's wiser to be cautious.

We stopped at a "services" on the road for refreshments - we called this one "Taunton Deane", others have been "Fleet" and "Brent Knoll"!! Me and Lorraine found the switch for a light and noticed the wiring hanging from the ceiling but that's as far as the amenities went - so we made do with a little daylight through a small window and a hole in the floor.

PART 2 I'm highly excited now as I have been up close to an elephant and fed her bananas and chappatis! She is a teenager (17 years) and quite naughty. I think I have died and gone to heaven! It's brilliant and we are going on a safari Wooo tomorrow. Hope to see lots of animals and birds especially the tiger. It's so coooool!

Pauline x ( Lorraine will be fine we'll look after her).