I'm not able to upload photos still! Will try so when I find a new internet place. Cochin A relaxed town still in Kerala. Here we are waiting for Chez to arrive and seeing the sights of the Fort town. It is an extremely lovely town despite the following paragraph of b****ing and moaning: The town is hot and humid with blackouts every few hours. The more tourist-savvy businesses are equipped with generators - don't get caught mid-meal in a restaurant with no g...

After a hairy motor-rick ride through the middle of the night I finally reached the right station at Chennai! On the way, he pointed out an upside down train next to the tracks Look at that! It's been there for many months - 65 people died.It did not help my nerves about this trip. With the help of a very nice student from the North I finally found the right carriage and got on my train in Chennai. I once again was very much the only foreigner in my carriage and...

I've just landed India completely exhausted. I think I've had about 5 hours snatched sleep on planes since Thursday night. I'm now at the Chennai central railway station at 2am. I'm pretty damn sure that I'm the only Anglo here and there are hundreds of people. The station police go around and wake up all the sleeping bodies on the cement floor to check they have a current ticket. If they don't have a ticket they get beaten with a stick and asked to move on. Yep...