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...

Jodhpur is a bit of a nothing town. Once you've seen the blue city and yet another Old Fort, it's basically done! We arrived at breaking dawn after an overnight train, we slept, we woke, we ate, we walked. Visited the Old Fort, saw the views of the blue city. Visited the market, got constantly harassed and tugged at by sleazy men. Ate street side samosas (which we all later got bad stomachs from). I napped while the girls spent hours trying to book cheap but safe...

We pulled into Jaisalmer station after our pretty comfy 18 hour train journey from Delhi. I'm pleased to say it was the nicest train so far. We always prepare ourselves for the hassling tuk tuk and hotel room sellers that await us outside the station gates but Jaisalmer was something else. I was walking in front of the girls and got swarmed in an instant, men shouting "where you go, where you go'"or "tuk tuk" or "you want cheap room". I physically couldn't walk ...