Our long weekend in Mumbai was the travelling equivalent of the city break; there was the nice-ish hotel, lots of treats, some classic sites, handbag shopping (ahem), a tour, a flash dinner and the result was we spent more Rupees in three days than we thought it was possible to spend in a week. Superfluous as it is to say, Mrs Brewster loved Mumbai. We were also just lucky, we did everything we wanted to do.
So what, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls were the highlights?
Well we've gone with three:
The first is mine and a little boring, if I hadn't been writing it, it wouldn't have made the list. It was my visit to 3's contact centre. Over the last five years I'd spent so much time talking about 'the Indian contact centres' it seemed daft not to visit. They far exceeded my expectations, with the buildings, scale, facilities and feel all being of the highest standard, in fact all better than our equivalents in the UK. So my thanks to Arun for sorting it out.
The wife's highlight was dinner at a restaurent called Indigo. It was all brillantly over the top and in three hours we dumped 6,000 Rupees, or $US160, with the average daily income in India at around 60rupees, you can imagine what one hundred days of pay can get you; a hefty sense of guilt and a healthy hangover - money well spent then!
The team highlight was our visit to Dharavi, Asia's largest slum. The company we did it through seems to be doing everything for the right reasons - we'll let their website do the talking - Reality Tours.
What we'll just say, is if you find yourself in Mumbai you must do this tour, it's disturbing and inspiring in equal measure.
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