I arrived in Paris today.

I spent the past couple of days with some friends of my parents in Mumbai, Shobahn and his family.

What a city. Beautiful in comparison with Delhi with lots of beautiful colonial architecture coupled with some equally great Indian buildings (I have to be PC, after all).

They took me around to see some of the sites but the highlight had to be some of the fantastic restaurants. I hadn't eaten so well since I got to India. Still have memories of the seafood. Good memories, not the normal recurrences of previous meals I had had on many, many other occassions in India. I'll put up some photos some other point, but at the moment I'm being ripped off for internet time at my hostel here.

So I have now arrived in Paris. I am missing India. Started when I changed $200 for a measly 100 euros. Probably last me little more than two days, whereas in India I could have travelled about for who knows how long with such a fortune.

Continued on the train. In the city of love I was lucky enough to be sitting directly behind a couple of young, lovers kissing very noisily. Such public displays of affection are unheard of in India, and I hadn't realised how much you appreciate that when you're a young single man in a bad mood! It was all I could do to stop myself yelling out a bad french translation of 'get a room!'. Instead, I concentrated on the sky outside, which matched my mood with a resolute grey.

I am back in the same hostel I stayed in three years ago, wearing half the same clothes, paying as much to hire sheets and a towel as I would for two nights in my own room in India. I'm not appreciating suddenly being one of the worst dressed people on the street, compared to India where I looked halfway decent.

I'm sure after a glass of red and a baguette my mood will improve.

Georgia had to travel back to Australia suddenly so for the time being I will be travelling by myself. I don't know where I'll be heading. I have some friends in Belgium, Holland and Germany I'd like to visit.

Hope everyone back home is doing well.

Tom