After a late night (ahem...) we pack up. First stop of the day is back to the City Palace for a look around. A few of us were lucky enough to get into the royal palace itself and look around the sitting room with its framed pics of HRH Charles and both wives (opposite ends of the room natch).
Then off to Rangotri, a large block printing centre. All parts of the process are done in-house including the dyeing, printing, stitching and packaging. Carrying on the gender theme, only men work in the factory.
Airport here we come.....
After landing we split into two groups with Claudia, Catherine and Jeremy heading to the Arts Reverie and the rest of us to understated House of MG. Arts Reverie is a delightful, restored haveli in the heart of the old city and is charm personified, although the stairs are a bit scary!
Here we meet Lokesh who will join us for much of the remaining trip and, in his own quiet way, becomes the new manager of the group, and Jonny.
Later we split up again into groups for various missions and get the delight of riding around the city in rickshaws. Who knew how much fun that would be!
We are also given our own individual missions from Lokesh.
Now off to bed for some much needed sleep.
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