After a good long sleep after that hideous night bus, I finally felt human again. Kate and Liv were up earlier then Nel and I so they went shopping in search of Indian gifts for an hour or two. I used the time to sort out my rucksack, I needed to think about what I was chucking away or giving to the girls to take home for me, no way did I want to lump around my Saree and new leather bag around another country. The chucking away bit didn't take long because I've a...

Why break a tradition of a lifetime, off course I wasn't going to sleep well on my last Indian train journey... We arrived into Hospet, and had to travel to Hampi. I was half asleep when we left the station and got in our tuk tuk, then we had the annoyance of changing tuk tuks because the first guys petrol had run out. We hadn't booked anywhere to stay so we were just winging it by turning up at a hotel in the LP book, luckily being end of season they had a 3 bed...

We arrived in the beautiful state of Kerala, we stayed in a beachside town called Varkala. Kerala is known for its tranquil and mesmerising backwaters and the harmonious villages that live between them. A must see if you're in the South of India and the whole reason we went there. It felt like we were in a different country when we drove through the town on our taxi ride from the station. All the houses were painted in elaborate bright colours, all different to...

We arrived in Bangalore at around 10am, found a luggage counter inside the station where we could dump our bags for the day and got in a taxi to the town. All the restaurants were closed until 11.30 due to an election that had been going on so we waited in a crap coffee chain and watched The Inbetweeners on Nelen's laptop. We ended up going into a restaurant called Sunny's that Lonely Planet recommended, we made the mistake of not asking to see a menu before sitt...

Namaste to Mumbai, translated, Welcome to Mumbai. We arrived at the domestic airport and booked a taxi to our hotel. On the way to the taxi rank, we popped into the supermarket to buy some water. I have to mention that supermarket because it stocked so many English food brands, I was just walking around like a kid at Christmas shouting out all the product names. It was all junkie food bits off course but just to see familiar brands. I think the weirdest thing I s...