So today was a practice day to get our eye in and get familiar with the driving habits of other Indian drivers, pedestrians, cows and other sundry users of the roads. A simple run of 25kms each way was promised so off we go in blazing heat and temps of 37C, Dinesh "call me Lewis" driving. Straight out of the hotel - fine. Navigator Mel says "next junction turn left", "ok", "turn left", "ok" again..........as we turn right! Anyhow we managed to turn round before anybody saw us. Next challenge was that both refuelling stops refused to give us any diesel so we arrived at the turnaround point on fumes. Turns out we were lucky- three other cars ran out of fuel completely. So afternoon started with a motorbike escort to emergency refuelling whee we and
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