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full immersion

Well this is a full on first impression, I thought that Thailand was the place where people were in your face, but here they come right up to you and ask you just about anything? especially for some of your money. Can't anyone understand, we are at the end of our travels, and have no money left, leave us alone please!!!
Mumbai for me is everything I thought India would be, dirty, pushy, full on, tiring, particularly overwhelming, but above all so far only the first day very stimulating...........
The feeling that you are constantly being ripped off because you are a foreigner starts to leave you a little negative and at the end you either sink to becoming aggressive or you become immune. I think I have become the latter, it is as if I walk around in a daze, at the constant haggling, begging, hassling but particularly the ripping you off to your face when they are unabashedly shamelessly tripling even quadrupling the price, you feel a little resentful and angry. Ok, I know only a few weeks to go, and it is a lot cheaper than Europe I know, but are we not supposed to come here because it is cheap? Some of the prices we have paid here in Mumbai have been practically the same as we would have paid back home. That's it complaining over, this is the last part of the trip, and I am going to enjoy it, so just you try to rip me off and triple the price, see what you get!!!
The architecture is stunning, you can see the remains of the British rule still omnipresent on every corner, with huge stunning glorious buildings occupying huge open spaces with fantastic grounds, all closed off to the public of course in case someone decides to live there. It makes me wish I had been around a hundred years ago to see it, although I am dead against colonisation, and find the whole of our past very distressing, it must have been pretty impressive in it's heyday.
We leave for Delhi tomorrow, 17 hour train journey, and Jason keeps reminding me that it is going to be much much worse than here, in the sense of more disturbing sights, and more hassling. Oh dear, ok I was not expecting South Kensington, but give me a break here, I just want a peaceful life too.
On the agenda, I think is: Agra,  Varanasi, Jodhpur, Jaipur, and  Jalsalmer,(sorry about wrong spellings?) that should be enough to keep us busy over the next few weeks...I'll just keep my dark glasses on, and look down and hopefully no one will come close, yeh right!!!!