Over the course of the last 10 days we have flown from Delhi to the capital of Kerala province, Kochi. Here we stopped at the harbour side town of Fort Cochi for a couple of days, followed by a short bus ride to the town of Allepey. We then stopped the night on a houseboat exploring the famous Indian backwaters before we jumped onto a train to the seaside town of Varkala. To summarize...Fort CochiThis small area of the bigger city Ernakulam is an old fishing port...

Delhi is the biggest city in India. We've already decided that we aren't the biggest fans of Indian city life so we made this a quick stop. We were there 24 hours. This was a day too long. True, we didn't explore too much, it was a quick overnighter. What we did see was just a filthy, honking polluted mess. We are not in a hurry to return.We did meet up with Vishnu though (tea shop man from Varanasi) for breakfast who was here on a short holiday. This stop in Del...

Wow! Really - Wow! We never expected anything to live up to its own hype as much as this. The Taj Mahal is breathtaking.After Varanasi we, especially David, were feeling a bit disheartened with India. We needed to find something special to make up for it. We honestly didn't think that that something would be a 400 year old building, no matter how famous it was. It was also Claire's birthday in Agra so whilst she didn't get any cards or presents she did get up and...