I'm staying in a hotel now :) It has a bath and a proper shower (yay) and a toilet lid that doesn't fall on my back whenever I sit down AND it has normal air conditioning, so I don't need to listen to the generator style one that was in the last place.. The thing is doesn't have, however, is my wee friend upstairs. They have a cool rooftop bar, with views across the whole of Jaipur, so I had a snack and drink up there tonight.

Oh my goodness, the Taj Mahal is unBELIEVable! I don't understand how something can be that symmetrical. The best time to see it, is at sunrise or sunset, but it still looked pretty amazing at lunch time. It was built by Shah Jahan, for his late (third) wife, in 1632. She was his favourite, as she was the only one who had managed to have children. Anyway, the whole thing took 20000 people, 22 years to build and it almost perfectly symmetrical - the only thing that isn't is the emperors tomb, which was laid beside Mumtaz Mahal (his wife). The emperor wanted to build another palace, this time in black marble, for his body to rest in, however he died before it was completed. Ok, enough of the history lesson. I didn't go for the Diana pose, because only she could really pull it off, plus there were about a billion (yes, the entire population of India WAS there today) other people in the way. I did, actually, feel as famous as Diana, because people kept taking photos of me (I know, who wouldn't?). Oh - for Slumdog fans - my shoes didn't get stolen! If you are a foreign tourist, you get these shoe covers, so you don't need to take your shoes off. Which is good, if nothing else so you don't burn your feet walking to the mausoleum.

It's funny, because I feel more comfortable in a hotel, as there are other tourists here! I mean, I know it's good to be where the locals are, but I was getting to the point where, if I saw a westerner, I would stare at them like people stare at me! There are loads of dutch people in my hotel. I'm not too fond of the dutch right now. They could totally have let Scotland win our recent match and therefore qualify.. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

Anyway, am going to watch 24. Only three more hours to go in this series and it's so exciting!