Day 21 - After experimenting with a Set Dosa we left for the Bull Temple (which indeed housed a massive Bull Statue), Dodda Ganesha Temple and lots of other nearby little temples and witnessed more Hindu ceremonies. Next up a stroll around the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens proved very relaxing and its lake is a step up from Coate Water! The gardens included rose gardens, cactus house, random monkey men, fountains and an impressive glass house modeled on Crystal Palac...

Day 19 - With much confusion over altered trains at Bangalore we made it onto a packed train at Mysore. Helpful passengers told us the train got in at 3pm (luckily they meant in 3 hours!) After chatting about India and a man insisting Catherine got her ears pierced while in India to fit with local custom (she's still thinking on this one!) we got to Mysore and walking past hundreds of men queuing by an Indian cinema for an unknown reason we found the cheap and ni...

Day 18 - Arriving in Bangalore we got to Royal Regency Lodge, after only one hour and 5 rooms we were in a lovely restaurant eating amazing masala dosa and a top cheese sandwich with sweet Lassis (very yoghurty!). Our first stop was Bengaluru Palace which greatly resembled Windsor Castle and contained everything from elephant heads to old fashioned fridges. The nice security guard outside even let us take one photo! The Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath Arts Gallery...

Day 16 - We started the day off with banana and coconut pancakes washed down with chocolate milkshakes. After breakfast we enjoyed our first Indian bus journey through the countryside to Margao. We walked through the heat to the brightly coloured Damodar Temple (we think!) continuing past crumbling Portugese homes in Largo de Igraja up to the Church of the Holy Spirit which was very sparkly and made the church in Mumbai look rather boring. Back at Margao's Muicip...

Day 12 - We easily found Hotel Manama and after Room 318 cockroaches, Room 315 no Western bathroom, Room 216 being sprayed for cockroaches, we settled down in the somewhat damp Room 115. As it was Independance Day Mumabi was deserted. After checking out the closed Monetary Msueum we had a massive noodle based lunch. Soon we were getting told off for photographing the Reserve Bank before finding the pretty Horniman Circle filled with Sunday street cricket. A very ...