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Today we decided to walk around Mumbai. Turns out the ship was docked pretty close to everywhere we wanted to go. We walked some of the waterfront - ending up at one of the many slums before we decided to turn back.
Mumbai is full of contrasts, slums a few blocks from the Taj Palace Hotel - scaffolding still made from bamboo, next to modernish container port. We traveled a similar route to yesterday, even enjoying a coffee in the Taj and lunch at Leopold's again. The city was busier today, more people and more traffic. It feels like everyone is on the move - So many cabs - everyone uses them, the blue cabs have air conditioning and the black cabs don't. The train station serves 7 million people a day!
Today was a h0liday of some sort and families were out enjoying the day. The women were dressed in the most gorgeous saree's. Groups of friends were out obviously enjoying each other's company.
Also of note - Mumbai is dry today - yesterday we could have a beer with our lunch, not so today.
We had some fun today taking pictures of signs - they're so interesting in foreign places - Adrian even found one "Rustico" which he took a picture of to pay homage to his beloved Rustico Harbour.
Adrian loves the heat and I am continuing to melt. I am trying to embrace the humidity and my profuse sweating as a free sauna and therefore good for my skin, not quite there yet.
Mumbai is full of contrasts, slums a few blocks from the Taj Palace Hotel - scaffolding still made from bamboo, next to modernish container port. We traveled a similar route to yesterday, even enjoying a coffee in the Taj and lunch at Leopold's again. The city was busier today, more people and more traffic. It feels like everyone is on the move - So many cabs - everyone uses them, the blue cabs have air conditioning and the black cabs don't. The train station serves 7 million people a day!
Today was a h0liday of some sort and families were out enjoying the day. The women were dressed in the most gorgeous saree's. Groups of friends were out obviously enjoying each other's company.
Also of note - Mumbai is dry today - yesterday we could have a beer with our lunch, not so today.
We had some fun today taking pictures of signs - they're so interesting in foreign places - Adrian even found one "Rustico" which he took a picture of to pay homage to his beloved Rustico Harbour.
Adrian loves the heat and I am continuing to melt. I am trying to embrace the humidity and my profuse sweating as a free sauna and therefore good for my skin, not quite there yet.
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