Notes from a Dug - Bikaner to Jaisalmer Based on the notes I had, Bikaner should have been a small desert outpost. My understanding was that even infrastructure for the Internet was unavailable. Was I ever mistaken. We entered Bikaner, home to 750,000 citizens; home to the Maharajah, home to his palace where the royal family still lives. Guess where we stayed? Yup, at the royal palace. Half of it had been converted to guest accommodation for travellers. Not only did we have huge staterooms where once Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten walked the halls, we were also ensconced in a separate area that opened to a courtyard the size of two Calgary backyards. We're in heaven, la, la, la (hum a few more bars of that song to yourselves). We had deck chairs brought out for
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