Kerala is perhaps best known for its backwaters, where vast inland stretches of palm-lined canals serve as the main transport between hundreds of small villages. We charted a converted rice barge (complete with crew and chef) for our two day adventure.

But a shed load of buses recently to get us out of Mysore (before James got any grumpier) and down to Kerala. The journey between Mysore and Kochi was 14 hours by bus which did not fill us with joy, so we decided to have a pit stop in Ootacamund, playground of the British Colonials (snooker [...]

We’ve just spent a couple of days in Mysore – a town in the state of Karnataka, which happens to be a very popular tourist destination for Indias on account of it’s palace, the hill top temple and scores of sweet shops.  The guidebook said we’d fall in love with it’s charm.  I want a [...]

We managed to tear ourselves away from Goa but not without train-themed fun and games. We arrived, bright eyed and expectant, ticket in hand, at 7.40am for the 8am train to Hospet. Six hours later we were still on the platform – we never did find out what caused the delay but I suspect the driver slept [...]

We left Delhi on the express sleeper train to Goa.  Within 30 minutes of leaving the city we were surrounded by the lush green Indian countryside. As we travelled further south we watched ladies in saries working in the fields, men hurding cows, goats and even camels, whole families on motorbikes and people walking [...]

Wow, this place is chaotic.  We arrived into Delhi airport at 4am this morning, the entire city was covered in thick fog, so thick even the driver looked nervous.  After a white knuckle ride into the centre (during which I’m sure the driver kept falling asleep) we arrived at our fifth-floor guest house.  We’ve been [...]