Our first full day in Mumbai
was to be a very relaxed one. Well, for me anyway. James had decided he wanted
a custom-made leather jacket that he could get made for pretty cheap, so he had
gone off down to one of the nearby leather markets to get measured up. I was
gonna use to the time to relax as I realised that when I get back home I won’t
have much time to chill out as I will need to get my head around Christmas and
sort out somewhere to live in Leeds. So I spent most of the morning tying up a
few loose ends and watching a bit of telly, waiting for James to return from
the market.
When he did we grabbed a bite
to eat and then headed out to try and find yet another market/bazar near to the
hotel. We wandered through the local “park” and saw a few kids playing cricket,
and you could see the tall new buildings towering over the small houses that is
a mark of Mumbai and how on-the-up the place is.
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| Anyone for cricket? |
We found another smaller park
down by the sea shore, and yet more kids playing cricket. The view out across
the water was amazing and the Mumbai skyline again looked fantastic. You can
see the wealth that is present in the city just by looking up above the one and
two storey buildings. Yet again the streets were not filled with people
badgering us left, right and centre for everything and anything so we had quite
a nice little wander along the coast.
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| Beautiful Mumbai |
When we go to the bazar…it wasn’t.
Well, it wasn’t quite what we were expecting/hoping. It just seemed like a
typical street in any Indian city, selling functional stuff for the locals.
With no souvenirs in sight we turned on our heels and headed back the way we
came. It had been nice to get out of the hotel and into the 30 degree heat, but
maybe the wearing of jeans had been a mistake. And it certainly didn’t feel
that hot either, which means that the shock of getting back to England will be
pretty bad. We shall just have to remember Beijing and prepare ourselves for
the cold weather again.
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