This year on Christmas Eve I will be staying in Bikaner in India and staying at a palace (now obviously a hotel). Then on Christmas Day finishing at Mandawa and staying in a castle.

A lovely Christmas gift would be to find a trove of double rifles so far not sold off to the foreign devils. I think the place has been heavily fished before in recent years so has largely been fished out, but it doesn't hurt to drop a line or two to see if there are any bites!

As I also have an interest in collecting swords, knives etc I think something of this line might find its way into my duffel by the end of the trip.