After 2 days off doing nothing we both found it difficult to get going further south but we simply had see abit more of Kerala before we left India. We chose Varkala mainly because a few people had said it was nice and was'nt to faraway bearing inmind that time was starting to count against us. Now in preparation I called ahead to a place so we had a room when we got there, or at least we thought, we arrived to find that they had given our room to someone else an...

The guide books recommend Allepey as a place to go on a houseboat. However this sounded far too touristy for us as there is at least 900 houseboats on the backwaters at the same time, most of them with motors. We decided we wanted a different experience of the backwaters of Kerala, and we certainly found it. We chose a house boat that didn't go as far as others, but it had no motor, just an old guy punting at the front of the houseboat and we didn't see anothe...

Cochin, Kerala - Gods own country, why I don't know but does have some connection to the fact Catholicism is the main religion in Kerala and Cochin has it's own Basilica recognised in 1984, not that we have been bothered to take a photo, I think it has to do with being spoilt by St.Peters in Rome. Cochin is tourist hub and is famous as a trading port particularly because the first European to land here was Vasco de Gama and he liked it so much that he eventually ...

When we woke to set off to Goa we both said it felt like we were going on a holiday within a holiday if you know what that means. We quite excited to get on our way with the knowledge we could have a good break and a recharge. Not to mention a few beers, some seafood and plenty of sun. On all our journeys we have made sure we have arrived in plenty of time for our departures (usually 1 hr - 1 and a half before). This is mainly to suss out the station which can be...

We arrived in Mumbai at 9.00am after an overnight train. The journey was ok but neither of us got that much sleep. Our intention was to sleep for a couple of hours and then to have a look around. This quickly changed once we saw the room we were staying in. It was the worst so far, with no window and it being so small it was like a sweat box. It had a shower, but it was a shared squat toilet that wasn't pleasant at all and it was the most we have paid for a ...