Jaipur Saturday 10th January
It had to happen one day - that day was yesterday. On the way back from town on Thursday, we discovered a trade fair. While Sonali was mooching about, I bought some Kashmiri honey and had one of those potato croquette things you can see all over town. Middle of the night, I’m on the loo - again and again. No cramps or vomiting, just unabated trots. Then I became dehydrated and then came the cramp. Anyone who has had their thigh go into cramp will know how painful it is. We were due to go out that day (Fri) so Sonali had to cancel and got the advice to eat bananas - lots of bananas. with fluid, the cramps stopped after lunch. we spent the rest of the day in the room.
Today we got to go out with Sunny in his pink Austin Ambassador. We saw a fantastic palace cum fort, graves, and Sonali bought some clothes and jewellery.
We have been at least one day too long in Jaipur and can’t wait to get on the train tomorrow night to Jaisalmer. The noise in the room from the kitchen staff and the exhaust fan was too much to take and I got a change for the last night. Yet another hotel advertises it takes credit cards and then sticks up a bit of paper saying it doesn’t because of ‘technical difficulties’. If I get my way with the duty manager tomorrow, I’ll wring out a late checkout as a compromise as the train is at 11.57pm.
Talk soon. BTW we just missed the snow in Kashmir - very pretty but we would have been stuck there as the road out was closed.