included and it ended up the only thing we could eat was bananas? Anyway the main thing was they stayed down and Rob was also able to drink fluids which was a good thing. It was our last day here and we were due to head back to Jodhpur after lunch, but again we declined lunch! So around 1.00 p.m. the butler man came over and said our car was ready whenever we were, so we decided to go have a shower, and get going as it would be good to get out of the intense heat. The owner had arranged for us to travel back in a car as it was more comfortable than the van, he said it was air-conditioned which is was, except their idea of air-conditioning is the windows and not an actual air-conditioning unit!!! So we set off thinking what a good time we’d had even though it had been slightly spoiled by us both feeling poo, we stopped for petrol and the driver had a bit of trouble getting the car going, we looked at each other and half smiled thinking bloody hell I hope this thing makes it back! Oh how wrong we were, about

10 minutes later and right in the middle of nowhere the car conked out, it went over a speed bump and died, so we were stuck there, the owner who had decided to come with us was ever so apologetic and we said ‘oh don’t worry it’s not your fault, secretly thinking I wish we’d have gone back in the van! The owner got the poor driver and some random passer by to push the car into the shade and then proceeded in trying to get it started, I suspected the head gasket had gone, remembering the tell tale signs from the two head gaskets I went through on my Clio! The car wasn’t going anywhere but after some frantic phone calls we were told that a jeep was on its way and would be about 30 minutes, just what poor old Rob needed to spend 30 minutes in a boiling hot car! Whilst the owner had been making various phone calls the driver had gone off with someone who had stopped to ask what the problem was. The owner asked us if we knew where the driver was and we told him he had gone, the owner muttered