With the fortune to travel again, we'll be exploring India for the next couple months. This Indian-version of the fiat 500 took us from the airport into Mumbai for our first few days. It's a rattling, tin box, and there are over 40,000 of them rampaging around the city. Interesting facts: Number of public toilets for every one million people: 17. Number of people in an 1800-person capacity train at rush hour: 7000. 
One of the hundreds of rather elegant looking horse-drawn carriages spinning round in the evening (with unfortunately gaunt horses). Behind is the impressive basalt arch, Gateway of India, commemorating the visit of King George V in 1911. The square is a crowded hangout for tourists, locals, and all sorts of touts and vendors (I will bring back a 5-foot balloon back for anyone who is interested).
We took a colorful ferry out to Elephant Island, a Unesco World Heritage site composed of a labyrinth of basalt cave-temples built in AD 450-750 (see below). 
Sailing back to the Gateway after Elephant Island.
Hoards of Indian tourists- a common sight. Western tourists are a huge rarity in Mumbai, and often a novelty for locals. We will be starring in many Indian people's photo-albums. Walking around various squares we were frequently approached by giddy Indians who wanted pictures with us.
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