Benaulim - Agonda - Hampi - Mysore - Ooty - Madurai - Kumily - Alappuzha Someone has turned the heat up. I am sitting under a fan in a little computer cubicle, still hot and sticky, but it's a relief after the beating sun and humidity outdoors here in Alappuzha, town on the backwaters in Kerala. We arrived yesterday afternoon after a three and a half hours on a bus and three and a half hours on a little ferry from Kumily, high in the Western Ghats. It was anothe...

Delhi - Agra - Jaipur - Jodhpur - Jaiselmer - Mumbai - Benaulim Well, after a hectic couple of weeks in the north, we have now installed ourselves in rooms a few hundred yards from the beach in Benaulim, Goa. Bliss and - at last - beer! India has been everything I expected and more: cows in the street, people everywhere and poverty like I've never before seen. It's both beautiful and shocklingly polluted in places, and we have met some wonderful people. One thi...