The journey must have taken quite a while, but in hind sight it seemed to pass very quickly. A hire car from Aberfeldy to Edinburgh, flight from Edinburgh to London; transfer to a different terminal; plane overnight from London to Mombai; met by a driver and taken to a company rest house for a cool room and lunch; another driver to a small airport and then another flight in a very small plane with just about sixteen passengers - I would like to tell you all that I could see of the ground, but there were moments when I had my eyes shut!! And finally another car journey to Reliance Greens, which is the company town for the Reliance Project here on the north coast of the Gujurat region of India. I am told we are only about three miles from the coast, but must confess I have not see it yet!!

There is no need to see it yet, we have arrived in the middle of the monsoon season and there is quite enough rain and mud all over the place without going to the coast!! It is also very humid. But we are told that the season will end in two or three weeks time and the rains will be over for another year - we are looking forward to that!! Now we know why the women and as many men as possible during the British Raj spent July and August in the hills with the cooler weather!

Amazing to realise we have already been here for a week already . . .

P.S. I saw a red truck just like Rhuraidh's this morning - and it was full of gardeners and their equipment!!