Jamnagar

Our stay in Jamnagar was pretty chilled out. Well for my brothers and myself at least. Mum and Dad were shopping almost everyday lol. There isn't all that much to do in Jamnagar really, and to be honest we were happy to watch the Olympics all day! The time difference between India and China isn't too bad either, so we managed to watch quite a lot. Unsurprisingly, India coverage is a bit crappy. Numerous spelling mistakes, mediocre commentary and unusual choices of ad breaks; one of them meant we missed an entire penalty shootout :S

There were a couple of things we did do though. We went to the local fare, which I insisted we went to because I had some good memories of it from previous times I'd been to Jamnagar. The dodgy safety systems (or lack thereof) were still present, with the ferris wheel being particularly unnerving. The giant swinging boat was good fun. Neil and Nikhil were pretty scared so they sat on the opposite side to me and closer to the centre. But this turned out to be a bad decision as someone further up behind them ended up vomiting bucketloads. Thankfully most of the, er, fluids were blocked by others, but Neil wasn't completely lucky lol.

The best part was the 'Indian Daredevils' show. I have to admit, I was seriously sceptical of this. With a ridiculous name like that I really wasn't expecting much. But wow, these guys were mental. I'll get the video up asap, but basically they drove motorbikes and cars on a cyclindrical track...so they were practically horizontal, going round extremely fast, with zero protection. Amazing. And they were able to grab money from people dangling notes at the top. Seriously cool.

Other than that, we got suits tailored for ourselves and did some of the essential visits to relatives.

It rained most days. There were 2 days when it really poured down, leaving the streets a total mess. Mud, sludge and pools of water everywhere. Luckily it was dry on our last day when we went to the train station, and also dry when we reached Mumbai. All in all, we were pretty fortunate the entire 3 weeks as we missed the rain almost every time.