Today started quite slowly due to the hangovers we were both nursing, far too much rum slipped slyly (it’s a very cheap way of doing it at 3 quid a bottle) into meagre glasses of coke the night before as well as plenty of beer to make it look like that was why we were getting drunk.  A lie in was the best cure and we got up around lunchtime then spent the best part of three hours updating the website and uploading pictures.

The train journey from Mysore to bangalore was hot, sweaty and smelly but only three hours long, we arrived in the dark at around 7 to be confronted by little kids eyeing our bags up and hoards of leachorous men oggling Kelly, not what we wanted and we were miles away from anywhere to stay. Having been here before and enjoying it the last time I was keen for Kelly to find something nice about the place. After a hectic 2hours walking around we were beaten into submission and got a rickshaw to the MG Road district where i knew it was less stinking and we might have had a chance of holding onto our bags!

We got dropped off about halfway down and headed for a place called Brindavan Hotel, it sounded cheap. It’s address was 108 MG Rd and when we got to 104 and the building after that was 112 we’d had enough. After speaking with a guy at a shop selling ham he directed us back the way we came and sure enough it was extremely close to exactly where we’d been dropped off! Quite funny the next day but at the time urrrgggh! The room wasn’t cheap and set us back 850 Rp, the most we’ve paid so far and yet it was among the bleakest, no shower or hotwater which we’re not too bothered about but you expect a bit more if your paying the extra. We didn’t have a choice at this time of night and paid the money.

We were STARVING! I’d build myself up into a frenzy and promised myself a few quarter pounders from the MacDonalds that I remembered seeing last time I was here. I splashed out and told Kelly dinner tonight was on me, we found the MacDonalds (it called to me) and……I was gutted. No beef on the menu, i didn’t want chicken or fish I wanted beef and lots of it. I settled for three chicken burgers and a Macfillet o fish which sadly lacked any beef. Never the less it filled a gap and for once it wasn’t spicy which gave our stomachs a rest. We returned to the room exhausted and still feeling the effects of the night before.