Not quite as early a start as we thought as Reggie had to pick up his wife from the hospital where she works. We got on the road by about 5.30am. It was about a 2 hour drive to Mysore, I wanted to sleep bet at the same time wanted to be looking out the window as we went past the scenery of India I had been really looking forward to seeing. Jungle book scenery! Huge boulders up in teh hillside with green greenery all round, and paddy fields, some drying out. Celine told us before that they have not had as much rain as usual this monsoon, and due to global warming (possibly!) the temperature is hotter than usual.
Our first stop was to look at the plots of land available for Celine to buy. All seemed very nice complared to Bngalore; very peaceful and beautiful. Also they were not too far away from the police station, hospital and shops.
Before going out to see them we had breakfast at the guy who showed them to us house and met his wife, child, mother and father (inlaw?). We had bread, cheese, a anana (oh yes! They're growing on me actually!) and a ricey type indian dish which was good.
Celine then took us to Mysore palace. Some of the rooms were pretty impressive and you've got to appreciate the workmanship, but buildings aren't really my kind of think. We had to take our shoes off to go in though which was quite a novelty! As were the urine stains in the corner of the stairways!
We had lunch at The Palace Hotel. The food was delicious as was not too spicy -apparently they're used to foreigners!
Bird sanctuary next. Wasn't too birdy to be quite honest! But on the boat the surroundings were beautiful and we saw several alligators (or crocodiles not sure which!) on rocks and in the lake.
On way back Maddy didn't feel too well but felt OK later. Beat me the quoterly 5 times at cards , Killed some mosquitos and went to bed!
xxx
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