Day 8, Chandipur-on-sea

We woke by a knock at the door at 0600, a welcome cup of chi and a voucher for complimentary breakfast went down well. Pulling back on the road at 0645, there were many diversions taking us off the main road and onto beaten up roads that you wouldn't wish on your neighbouring town. After thundering for 10 hours we saw a beach, at a town called Chandipur, not too far from the road and decided to stay over here. It was in fact owned by the same company who put us up last night, unfortunately for us it was in the same condition. We rolled up just as 3 other teams also decided to take the plunge. Asking for the best room in the house, doesn't always get you it. Led by 70yo skinny Lurch lookalike we trekked probably a Km through the grounds of India's Butlins to the furthest room from any facilities. Pleasantly surprised we opened all the windows to allow he sea breaze to act as air con. (something in hind sight we wish had paid for) there wasn't a single bug or dead fly in the room and thought it a good call to leave the windows open while we slept. Error. Despite a net clearly covering every innch of bed, I woke to fin more life inside the net than outside. Including Giant ants, possibly the biggest cockroach I have ever seen and enough mosquitos to infect a small country. Each one I killed had litres of my own blood now caking my hands. Back in its rightful place at least. This and James inessential snoring made us get up at 0400 and run for the main road. I would not recommend this hotel to anyone, didn't even get to see the beach. Apparently it's only 1ft deep for near on 1km out so fishing would have been out of the question. On the up side , our diet consists mostly of vegetarian meals now. That seems to be keeping things solid.. Insect count unmanageable.