in 8000, and didn‘t give him a receipt! He then had to go into the bank and try to explain to the bank manager what had happened. They then opened the machine and check the amounts, and that was what had taken so long!!! Arrghh what a day! We finally got to the taxi stand and managed to get a taxi share so things were looking up!

We got to Mussoorie without a hitch thankfully! The man who we had shared the taxi with asked if we would like to get a room where he was staying, we went to have a look but it didn’t really take our fancy! So off we went to check out the places we’d seen in Lonely Planet, but we soon realised that it would be easier if I got a coffee at the nice looking Italian style coffee shop and Rob went off to check out some places due to the weight of our bags and the serious amounts of uphill! So I got myself a large cappuccino and a chocolate muffin that came hot and

smothered in hot chocolate sauce which was quite nice until it cooled down and then went somewhat like rock like due to it being microwaved! Not that I cared really it was just nice to be sitting there with a really nice cup of coffee, something sweet and a newspaper! Rob came back and was undecided about the rooms, he had a choice of two and couldn’t really decide which he thought was best, obviously I had no idea so said go with your first choice, he did and we ended up at Sunny Cot. He had already explained that it wasn’t the best room we’d ever had but the views were better, so I thought OK, lets give it ago! As we’d had some pretty awful rooms I wasn’t holding out too much hope and I sure was right not to, the room was like the inside of a caravan a sort of cream melamine with bright mushy pea green paintwork and bathroom suite! I said ‘blimey if this is the best one I would hate to see what the others were like‘, he agreed that they were pretty awful so we thought ah well! It also had a