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View of Mysore from Chamundi Hills
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A Bull! Chamundi Hills
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Sugar Cane Juicer yum!
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Noddy!
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Sai Baba Shipp Spiritual Guru
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Jen and a pensive Malc
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View from our front balcony
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View of small shanty town from our back balcony
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View of our lovely pool!!! (recently emptied after the monsoon floods which turned it into a muddy swamp!
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"Feed me feed me maam maam, just one Rupee" (one of the many beggars that harrass us on a daily basis)
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View of the opposite flat
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Jen at work with a birthday bunch from her team!
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Malc just beginning to cheer up half hour after our new car purchased in the morning just died in the middle of the city!
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Malc, done something right! Jen at Sczechaun Court at The Oberoi Hotel.
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Getting slowly drunk, nothing new there!
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Mmmm, roast crispy duck with plum sauce!!
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The Singing Waiters
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Jen got a free birthday cake without either of us asking!
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Death by chocolate, looks awful but tasted lovely!!
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Mmmm, shall i cut the cake or stick this in Malc!!
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Temptation is too great, I'll cut the cake even after 3 courses!
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Ahhhh, birthday girl drank a little too much!
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Some of Jen's team at the call centre.
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Vivek & Malc Chamundi Hills
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Jen & Malc @ Chamundi Hills, nr Mysore
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Mysore Zoo, 3 Year Old Elephant & Jen!
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Vik standing to attention with a coconut?!
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Jen & Malc Sampling tender coconut
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Malc at one with nature!!
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Colourful stuff @ Mysore market!
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Mustard seeds being shelled by cars driving over them!!
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Malc in a coracle
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Vivek in a coracle!
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Mr & Mrs Vivek, Vivek & Bruno the Vegetarian Alsation!
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Jen trying to look clever and world wise at Golden Palms
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Malc showing off freshly manicured hands at Golden Palms
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Just in case you couldn't see close enough on the last picture!
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Jen considering making all the water jump out of the pool, Golden Palms
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Malc's teeth before polishing and treatment, awful!
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Jen attempting to look important, business like and slim!!!
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Malcs teeth after the first stage of treatment, looking slightly better!
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Brendan, a complete lunatic from Cheltenham.
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Malc with Zoe, another nutter from Cheltenham!
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Malc, Brendan and Gemma from Bristol, Ooh Aargh!!
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Zoe, doing her best not to look mad!
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A drunken camera moment, Malc and Jen at Spinn Nightclub
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Ditto
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A pair of west country tarts at Spinn Club
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One of Malc's infamous pensive moments!
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Brendans arse next to a sleeping security guard, nice!!
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Malc driving the rickshaw home, with a very nervous driver!
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Malc clearly too tall to drive a rickshaw!
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Malc and rickshaw driver with the one that he drove!
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Zoe and Brendan in Guzzlers
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Jen after perhaps one too many!
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2 too many then!
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Oh dear, slightly embarassing!!
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Zoe and Brendan again, looking extremely ugly!
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Jen and Vivek
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Jen and Tintu
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Vivek with Lisa, reckon your in there mate!
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Zoe with her "seductive barmaid" look!!
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Mmmm, how people can let themselves down in a matter of seconds!
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Jen driving a rickshaw!
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Keep your eyes on the damn road woman!
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Getting ready for go karting with a little Dutch courage
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Zoe completely soaked after taking an extra half hour to do her 10 laps, first attempt at driving, bless!!!
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A motorcyclist complete with passenger and car windscreen, obviously!
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Mano, the son of our maid!
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Jen and Mano
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Malc and Mano
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Dancing bear at Utter Pradesh border, very cruel, should be banned!
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This guy actually wanted me to pay to take this photo, told him where to stick it and how cruel he was!
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Don't remember the name of this place but was on way to Taj Mahal
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Richard in front of Taj Mahal gate, the white marble you can see through the entrance is the Taj Mahal.
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Taj Mahal
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Taj Mahal pic spoiled by two white hooligans!
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Sat in Diana's seat, named after a beautiful picture taken of Princess Diana sitting here!
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One of the mosques to the left of Taj Mahal
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View of river from Taj Mahal
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One of the 4 towers, they all lean out at 2 degrees so they would fall away from Taj Mahal in the event of an earthquake!
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Intricate designs in white marble. 20 thousand workers toook 22 years to construct this and the other buildings surrounding it!
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The mosque to the other side, everything about the whole estate is completely symetrical, the trees and flowers, everything!
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Notice how Malc's head fits perfectly into Taj gate.
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Another angle of the Taj Mahal!
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Camels and carts awaiting to take visitors to Taj Mahal. No motor vehicles allowed near to prevent pollution.
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Near the Taj Mahal, marble carvers, apparently descendants of the original carvers of Taj Mahal.
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Filing the intricate inlay flowers for marble tables!
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Malc stood for 2 hours in pouring rain outside embassy in Delhi.
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