We are having a lazy day. Jon was up at 04:00 am to accompany Justine to the airport for the start of her Bethel Mission trip in Calcutta that she is co leading. Our hosts Jon and Lori have gone back to the UK to renew their visa so here we are all alone! I'm working my way through tasting Indian foods: Butter Chicken, Biriyani, Samosa, perfectly ripe mangoes, passion fruit and the sweetest bananas I've ever tasted. Children go to school on Saturday, I've just ...

Here I am in Starbucks in Bangalore using their Wi Fi as our apartment has no electricity! We've booked trains, planes and hotels including a 7 hour taxi journey to the border in Nepal! Yesterday we met Janet and Nelson who have moved to Hosur ( Tamil state) with their 4 children. She is the only white (blonde) woman in town and is getting used to the stares from the locals. They have a heart to reach the mums in that area. It has a huge infanticide problem-one ...

This is a view from our apartment window! Opposite is a furniture making business where men hand make gorgeous tables and chairs and then leave them among the rubbish and the dirt in the heat. Next to the tent furniture business there are some bushes that were on fire last night. No one seemed at all bothered and then I was told that they burn bushes to rid them of snakes: pythons, cobras and rattlers,mainly! We are here in Bangalore until Monday which has been...

Day 1 in India. It's Holiday Day, a hIndu festival where it seems gangs of teen boys chase each other around the streets throwing dyed eggs and paint at each other! We are staying in a small block of flats, from our window you can see cows strolling around eating rubbish. There are shanty houses which are nothing more then small bricked building no bigger than my kitchen housing large families. It's hot! Mopeds rule the roads, they taunt you coming close to hitt...