Learning to haggle - Day 2

Going to keep this one short today. Summarised. My apologies.

Checked out of the Sea Palace

Booked into the even nicer, and cheaper place, The Hotel Godwin, Garden Street.

Waited till the air-con got fixed in the room 801. Ask for this room and hotel if you are ever in Mumbai. Off season you can probably haggle then down to 4000rps for three people, perhaps less, who knows in India.

Went to checkout the roof top garden.

Left the hotel.

Bought some sandals.

Went to McDonalds – Peter (MackyD fanatic according to Ian) and Eoghan

Got lost as to where Church Gate disappeared to.

Looked at some cameras

Bought another pair of sandals. Tried to charge me 1200rps and got them for 300, the same price Ian paid.

Went to Thomas Cook offices to change money.

Went to the Western Railway to buy our tickets for the train to Goa. This required all passports and visas. Aidan forgot his and had to return to the hotel in a taxi. He actually forgot it again and had to go back again.

Went to find out why my Indian SIM card wasn't working and they said 30 minutes. They said this the first time.

Ian got a photo taken and got a SIM card for himself.

Myself, Ian and Peter ate in a restaurant called Sunshine, to find out it was a Chinese restaurant. Strange menu for a chinese.

Walked down to the museum where we were to meet the lads. It was 5.30pm and they were looking for 300rps entrance. Indian price 20rps. Decided against it. The lads weren't there.

Went back to our glorious Hotel to meet the lads.

Showered and caught up on Internet stuff, like blogging, Skype phonecalls to mum, brother and boyfriend (3 times). 3 to 4 hours online.

All of us ate dinner on the roof top garden with beers over looking the city of Mumbai.

Ian went to make calls and catch some shut eye. The rest of us headed back to our room, 801 to play cards.

I Video Sype my gostoso Joao. So good to see a face when you are missing the person. We ended up laughing and smiling each other through most of it. So worth every moment. x

The boys continued to play cards in the lounge area. I joined them and we stayed there until 4am in the morning.