So Monday proved to be another fun packed day in Mumbai. Fun like meeting our shipping agent and our vehicle insurance agent that is.

Our inbound shipping agent is Yatin Ganatra (end2endglobal.com). His office is barely 50 metres from our hotel which was helpful, as was Yatin. He helped us organise the inbound process and even arranged our accommodation in Bangalore and Chennai! He was very excited when we met him because Diwali is coming up (Sunday Nov 3rd) and he has ordered a new car which he collects on the Sunday.

We arranged our vehicle insurance through the West India Automobile Association whose offices are also a short walk away. Abdul Kahn was our contact, he was very thorough and made sure we left with exactly what we needed. Here’s a picture of an unusually serious looking Abdul:

The afternoon was given over to watching cricket, there is a huge cricket area in the central city area and there seem to be two or three games going on whenever we walk by.

I should probably wax lyrical now of the satisfying thud of leather on willow and of ladies preparing cucumber sandwiches for tea but since neither of us qualifies as a cricketing aficionado I’ll resist (Leishia doesn’t know how many balls make up an over and I don’t know my gully from my silly mid off!).

One of the teams playing was from the Kishinch Chellaram College and as we were waiting for the cricket to progress (not the most dynamic of games!) we read through an examination paper the students happened to have with them. I thought my English was OK but what about this for a question (number 20 if you care):

“The world won’t care about your old defeats”. The figure of speech used here is a) Simile b) Metaphor c) Metonymy or d) Synecdoche.

I’ve looked it up and I’m still not sure what the answer is, thank goodness I’m not eighteen!

So after the English lesson we trundled off to dinner and shared quite simply the best Indian starter either of us had ever tasted, special prawns. Look at these little lovelies:

followed by a very acceptable mixed vegetable dish:

and a very colourful finale:

all washed down with a bottle of Kingfisher. Well, truth be told, Leishia enjoyed one too many G&T’s (i.e. two!) so she was on form for the rest of the evening.

And that was that, shipping, insurance, cricket and dinner!