Halleluiah!!!

Two brilliant things happened this morning.

Our Air Freight boxes arrived from Mombai.

And the rains must at least be virtually over as the swimming pool has now been cleaned and refilled and is ready for use again.

The Air Freight boxes arrived in Mombai about three days after we did!! But only arrived here this morning!! When we first arrived our passports had to go to the local Police Office in Jamnagar for the preparation of our Residency Permits. So our passports and the huge volume of paperwork could not go to Mombai until after that. By this time the Customs Office at Mombai Airport had almost decided that these boxes were not going to be collected and they were already beginning to arrange for them to be returned to London!! And then, of course, there was the matter of the fact that many roads have been flooded between Mombai and here with the Monsoon rains!! But never mind, they are here now and everything is in good order!! All we need now is the apartment to go with our things!!

The swimming pool is enormous and outdoors. There is 'ladies only' swimming every morning from nine to eleven. And virtually the only people who will be using the people are three of the ex-pat ladies (including me) so it feels as if we have our own private pool, We swam for the first time this morning and it was absolutely heavenly!!