Well here's a picture of the hall of the hotel I'm staying at. I swear the rug is some foreign 50's throw back. I have a suspicion that it might be one of the main reasons there is a constant musty odor when you come down the hall. No need to fear though, this is my last night here at the hotel... tomorrow afternoon I'm moving into a flat that is much more accommodating.

Though the hall is kind of nasty, the room itself isn't bad at all. Don't open up the curtains though or you might have to decide if you like the view out there or the view of the hall better.

Despite the fact I'm going to move out of this end of town, I decided to venture out out tonight. I've had good Indian food all week, so tonight I decided to go with Chinese food. I stumbled across a restaurant review and even though it only had an average rating, I decided to try it any way. The critic indicated with appetizers, drinks and dinner you could get a meal for two for about 900 Rs ($22). So needless to say I thought for one it might cost me 500 Rs, ended up costing me 800 Rs ($20). Well it may have been pricy, but I had a great meal, great service, and even a nice glass of wine. The staff was almost all Chinese; my waiter stop to talk to me for a bit and asked me a curious question.... He asked do you like it better here with the Chinese or with the Indians. I politely gave a non-committal answer but did indicate that I really liked the fact that when I came in the restaurant I had stepped away from the noise and smells of the Bangalore streets below (the autorickshaws really need to be destroyed... 2 stroke engine pollution is nauseating).

Now I had a very nice driver to take me to the restaurant and to return later to pick me up... but I'm confident he ripped me off. Dinner with tip cost me 800 Rs, the round-trip cost me 600 Rs ($10.50), more then 1/2 of what dinner cost me. I started to argue but just didn't have the energy for it.

Now I'm sure most of you don't care about my bathroom, but I've found some humor to share with you there too. Almost all the porcelain is branded as Hindiware, including the toilet (HIND), but the urinals I've seen are branded Larryware. I don't know if that strikes you as funny but as soon as I saw that I had to chuckle (yeah call me immature if you want).

Well I have an early wake-up tomorrow. Off to see a cricket match (well it's just a practice but cool to see the Indian team that just beat England). When I get back I'm moving to the flat. I'll takes some pictures of both the match and flat and tell you all about them then. Talk to you soon.....