5th November Goa so far is treating me well; I'm just not treating myself so well! I've managed to slice my thumb open chopping tomatoes and I think I may have just broken my toe.....but we'll get to that. I've had a busy few days; we spent yesterday morning in Mapusa buying supplies and (live) chickens - a new cockerel (Nero) and two new hens (Clucky and Twiggy) for Tor and Mo's new and improved HUGE chicken coop. Honestly the thing is massive, I'd happily ...

So I've finally got my act together and got an Indian number sorted out for my time here. Get it in your contacts now so that when I call/text you, you actually answer instead of wondering what strange number is bothering you and ignore me :-) For those of you in the UK, if the fancy did take you and you wanted to hear my dulcet tones (as described by my darling friend Holly Butterworth - I'm more inclined to think that I sound like a northern lass with the voic...

The last 48 hours are a bit of a blur but I'm going to attempt to put down the jist of what's being going on. We left Pushkar on Wednesday lunchtime, catching the 3:50pm train out of Ajmer for a seven hour journey back to Delhi. I was sad to leave Pushkar, especially as we met some great people during our last couple of days (you know who you are!) but I was looking forward to another night in Delhi. I don't know if it's because I'm getting used to the trains o...

31st October - Pushkar Happy Halloween! One of my favourite holidays back home and unfortunately not celebrated here (god knows what people would make of our costumes in India!) so I'll be having a look online to see what everyone got up to. I might not have been dressing up but I've been playing trick or treat with monkeys all day. After a piping hot shower (a rare occurrence here believe me!) I settled down on the terrace for my morning 'honey lemon...

29th October - Pushkar Totally slept in today despite not going to bed that late - Pushkar is not a 'staying out late' kind of town, every night dad and I wander back through near empty streets to the hotel and have to sneak past the hotel boys who are sleeping. Although we're on the opposite side of the lake from where all the action is, it's noticeably louder this morning and more and more people are arriving for the camel fair. For such a sleepy town, having ...