Mumbai .....

Today we had a quieter one. We had planned to go to the Taj Mahal Hotel for brunch, but we're both feeling a bit jaded, so instead had a late breakfast, swim in the pool and a little retail therapy.

The Yogi Executive is a beautiful hotel in Navi Mumbai - new Mumbai

The flowers around the hotel are stunning and fragrant

The restaurant has a huge fish tank 

We went for a swim, there were a few pigeons on the safety rail and after the manager came to see us he sent a boy with a cap gun to scare them off!  Only in India! The pigeons weren't impressed , we said to the boy that he needed an AK47 which he thought was very funny 

The enormous shopping Mall is better than you would find in the UK, all international brands, not far from the Aston Martin dealership.

We stopped for lunch and were given a tablet to order our meal and drinks on - impressive

So any of you that think India is 3rd world may be surprised with growth of 7% and interest rates of 8% on bank deposits  -it's  considerably better than back home.

Just checked our mail to see Air India has rescheduled our flight for a little later this afternoon, so no blogs til maybe Friday x