Following our last blog we have been briefly into two other Indian states: Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The reason for venturing into the former was to visit the royal palace in Mysore designed by an anglo-indian architect at the turn of the 20th century. It was impressively opulent. Our initial question on entering Mysore was ' why are all the cows yellow? ' The answer; there was a cow festival. Whilst there we also found an excellent historical bike tour of the is...

Kerala has been a wonderful surprise because it is so different to our previous Northern India travels. We had expected a frenetic tempo with lots of hassle and a constant feeling of exhaustion, but to date it has been completely the opposite. Only moving twice in the first 2 weeks has helped. We flew into Cochin from Sri Lanka, which is halfway up the Keralan coast. Fort Cochin was our first port of call where we enjoyed delicious food and gained some understan...