Day 37 (Lucknow)

There's nothing to report from Lucknow really, it was a pretty quiet evening after a long drive day. We got to our hotel and checked in getting a room on the third floor. When we were climbing the stairs (don't trust lifts after getting trapped in one in Sofia) we were a bit puzzled as to whether we were going the right way or had somehow taken a wrong turn out of reception and ended up in a prison. It was the weirdest building I've ever been in where bits of the outside were inside..very strange.

Our only exploration of the city was to go looking for food for the next day for lunch as we knew we had another long drive day (there are lots of them and I'm growing tired of crisps and biscuits in the same way as I am eggs for breakfast). We managed to find a little place that was lit by oil lamps and stocked up on some junk food and water there. After that we went in search of a restaurant to get a decent dinner into us. It had gotten very dark all of a sudden and without my torch and any streetlight I was trying to be careful about where I was stepping – but I wasn't careful enough..I ended up walking in the biggest pile of poo I've ever seen. Thankfully I realised with the initial squelch as my foot was pressing down so managed to pull up before I got submerged in it, but I had to scrape my sandal along the street for a long, long time to get it off my sole...eurghhhh! We couldn't find a restaurant the length of the hotel street so went with eating in the hotel restaurant where the food was ok but the service was appalling. If it had been at home I'd have been up and walked out because we were waiting so long.

No photos from the day I'm afraid..there wasn't a whole lot to see!