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 ...

The journey from Udaipur to Mount Abu was a nightmare from the start. It was an early start and i wasn't feeling too well anyway. We had to wait about 3 hours for our bus to turn up and they told us it was because the bus had a problem with its breaks....that gave us confidence(NOT). When the bus finally arrived i thought we could just get on and i could fall asleep for the whole journey that was supposed to be 4 hours. Well i didn't get any sleep, the roads ...