We left our lovely tent hotel this morning after breakfast and drove for about 4 hours to Khimsar. We’re in rural India now and it’s always interesting to see the passing landscape. The negative thing that assaults the senses is the rubbish everywhere, along the side of every road, in every village. There is so much plastic everywhere to which we contribute by drinking multiple bottles of water…all the time.
We arrived at out accommodation in time for lunch and wow, it is amazing. We are staying at Khimsar Fort which was/ is a small kingdom, a branch of the Jodhpur kingdom. It has been converted into a heritage hotel and it is incredible…so much so that it cannot be described. It is just splendid with massive rooms (unfortunately Sally and I have the smallest of them), a palace incorporated into the fort that is still occupied by the family. There is a very large swimming pool too.
We had lunch in a sumptuous dining room and then play time for a few hours. We had been badgering our guide about needing more supplies of alcohol and he gathered a small group of us to walk into the town with him to buy supplies. We found it but noe wine, only very well priced gin. We bought 2 bottles !! and came back to the hotel.
There was a walk into town at 5pm but as we had already been into town we begged out of that and went and sat ourselves by the pool with a secret G&T (we ordered the tonic and then slipped in the G ). Sally went on the walk which was apparently good, but we had a lovely time relaxing and having swims.
Sally is sick and hasn’t stopped coughing for the last 2 nights. She is just as bad tonight so there isn’t much sleeping going on in our room sadly. I gave her my ventolin puffer and when we were in the town we bought another puffer and some cold tablets.
Anyway I’ve had a shower and we now have to get ready to go for dinner so more later.
Just had dinner on the fort walls overlooking the swimming pool and the fort all lit up. Amazing and a lovely meal with tonic water again enhanced surreptitiously with a wee drop of gin !!
Goodnight darlings and a special happy dreams Kirst!!