Now in Agra
Ok. Seven days after leaving Colva we've made it to Agra... just. Over the last 72 hours we've gone through three batteries and are now in the process of rewiring Sanjeev for the third time. We've done 2000km, with about another 100 to go so hopefully we'll make it on time. It all hangs in the balance though.
 To cut a long story short. I blame the roads of India and maybe some overzealous driving. The problems started when Sanjeev suddenly lost power while doing about 50kph on NH3. A brief inspection hinted at the cause of the problem, the battery was no longer there. It seems that all the jolting caused the battery to fly out and drag a fair amount of the electrics with it. This seems to have been a large part of the last few days' problems.
 Making this worse, the beautiful scenery of Maharashtra (including an amazing but taxing mountain pass just outside Pune, more of which later) has given way to slightly less pretty, fairly arid and industrialised Northern areas. This, combined with the huge numbers of trucks on the roads with very loud horns and full beam on all the time has made the last couple of days abit of a trial.
 Nevertheless, the view of the Taj Mahal and the prospectof seeing dawn break over it tomorrow morning is making the last few days almost worth it.
 Anyway. I'm gonna dash because Sanjeev is now pretty much done and we have to check him over.
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Mor news later...
