Ten Things I Learnt During Three Nights In Mumbai.

1. Never get on a plane with Alice Hale.

2. If your hostel has a curfew, spend the night at a club called The Bedroom. But keep an eye on Ross.
3. Beers and breakfast are a wonderful combination.

4. Pretentious Australian writers are hard to find if you only look for them in Leopold’s.

5. Mumbai is probably the most contradictory city in the world. Nowhere else does desperate poverty live so close to overwhelming affluence.

6. The best – and cheapest – thalis are to be found round the corner from one of the most expensive clubs I’ve ever been to.

7. At the Elephanta Caves, be wary of cheeky monkeys.
8. If you can’t sweep the reality of the slums under the carpet you might as well build an international airport next to them. The slums are the first thing you see when you get off the plane and they make an instant, sobering impact on all of your senses.

9. I still don’t know who the f*@% Alice is.

10. I loved every moment; I might move there one day.

Matt x

Ten Things I Learnt During Three Nights In Mumbai.